Why Do Organisms Survive?

All organisms must have adaptations to survive. The adaptations that organisms develop help them to survive in their environments and then are passed down through reproduction. The genes are passed to future generations and adaptations continue to occur over long periods of time. Nature Works tells us,” animals that are better adapted to their environment survive and breed. Animals that are not well adapted to an environment may not survive.” There are three types of adaptations that can occur: morphological, physiological, and behavioral. Morphological adaptions are the actual physical traits such as a bird’s beak shape. Physiological adaptions are the internal systematic response such as the venom snakes produce. Behavioral adaptions are what an organism does to survive certain conditions such as migration of birds from the north to the south at winter. Traits also come with a cost, one may be good for survival but might impede reproduction. Herbivores have more teeth in the molar tooth-row that they use to grind up and chew their food because they have an all veggie diet. Carnivores have molars but have much greater use in their canine teeth to slice through meat. Carnivores have wider heads in relation to skull length than herbivores. This adaptation is a key to be
We also predict that the Herbivores would have more teeth in their molar tooth-row compared to the Carnivores which we believe would have more canine teeth. However, we did not test their amount of canines. Carnivores are predicted to have wider skulls as compared to Herbivores. This means that the value of bi-orbital length divided by the skull length should be higher for carnivores than herbivores (Figure 4). Dividing each length by the total averaged them all