Meaning Of The Word Preadaptation
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Preadaptation Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Preadaptation?
preadaptation in American English
the possession of certain characteristics by an organism which make it more adaptable to a future environmental change than similar organisms are noun: a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment preadaptation in British English noun: the possession by a species or other group of characteristics that may favour survival in a changed environment, such as the limblike fins of crossopterygian fishes, which are preadaptation to terrestrial life |
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