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Encyclopedia > Adaptation (disambiguation)

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Adaptation may refer to Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

If spelled with a full stop at the end, Adaptation. is a 2002 film starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep. The eye is an adaptation. ... Main articles: Life The most salient example of biological universality is that all living things share a common carbon-based biochemistry and in particular pass on their characteristics via genetic material, which is based on nucleic acids such as DNA and which uses a common genetic code with only minor... Natural selection is the process by which biological individuals that are endowed with favorable or deleterious traits end up reproducing more or less than other individuals that do not possess such traits. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... The term adaptation when used within the context of the biology of the eye refers to its ability to adjust to various levels of darkness and light. ... Film adaptation is the process of using another artform as the basis of a film. ... In literature (as well as many works of nonfiction), a theme is the main idea of the story, or the message the author is conveying. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The following is a partial list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays, and includes more literal adaptations as well as works where Shakespeare was obviously an inspiration: Alls Well That Ends Well The film Alls Well That Ends Well (1980), directed by Elijah Moshinsky with Angela Down as Helena... A full stop or period, also called a full point, is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. ... film poster Adaptation. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... Nicolas Cage on the cover of the March 1997 edition of GQ magazine. ... Streep in Silkwood (1983) Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has received numerous accolades for her work in movies and television and who, from the 1980s to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field. ...


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Adaptation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (296 words)
A biological adaptation is an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection such that it increases the expected long-term reproductive success of the organism.
Adaptation can be viewed as taking place over geological time, or within the lifetime of one individual or a group.
Structural adaptations are special body parts of an organism that help it to survive in its natural habitat, for example, its skin colour, shape and body covering.
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