{"id":5450,"date":"2024-10-02T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna.wpenginepowered.com\/adaptation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:13:06","slug":"adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>The natural process by which a living species becomes the best fitted for its environment. Adaptations are a result of natural selection\u2019s acting upon heritable\u00a0variation\u00a0over several generations\u201d (Gittleman, 2022). Organisms adapt in many different ways, their body structure, their physiology, the way they move through their environment, and even on a genetic and molecular level. For instance, the blowhole at the top of a dolphin\u2019s head is an adaptation that allows it to keep swimming without slowing down to breathe by sticking its entire face out of the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe natural process by which a living species becomes the best fitted for its environment. Adaptations are a result of natural selection\u2019s acting upon heritable\u00a0variation\u00a0over several generations\u201d (Gittleman, 2022). Organisms adapt in many different ways, their body structure, their physiology, the way they move through their environment, and even on a genetic and molecular level. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,132,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-fao","category-a-fao","category-glossary-fao"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"naima","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/author\/naima\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}