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| Preferred Name |
adaptation |
| Definitions |
[Henderson's] n. (1) evolutionary process involving genetic change by which a population becomes fitted to its prevailing environment; (2) structure or habit fitted for some special environment or activity; (3) process by which a cell, organ or organism becomes habituated to a particular level of stimulus and ceases to respond to it, a more intense stimulus then being needed to produce a response; (4) in the eye, increasing sensitivity of retina to the available light. |
| In Schemes | |
| Type |
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept |
| scopeNote | US LTER controlled vocabulary |
| creator | |
| definition | [Henderson's] n. (1) evolutionary process involving genetic change by which a population becomes fitted to its prevailing environment; (2) structure or habit fitted for some special environment or activity; (3) process by which a cell, organ or organism becomes habituated to a particular level of stimulus and ceases to respond to it, a more intense stimulus then being needed to produce a response; (4) in the eye, increasing sensitivity of retina to the available light. |
| note | [controlled by ] Mark Frenzel, 22 May 2013 |
| prefLabel | adaptation |
| created | 2016-03-31 |
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| modified | 2018-12-18 |
| exactMatch | http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_117 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adaptation |
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