Structural Adaptation

Structural Adaptation

By: María Gabriella Viloria, Mariana Saenz, Alejandra Granados and María Gabriela Mosquera

What is STRUCTURAL ADAPTATION?

Structural adaptations are physical features of an organism like the bill on a bird or the fur on a bear. Other adaptations are behavioral. Behavioral adaptations are the things organisms do to survive.

Examples of structural adaptation

• Bird Feathers
• Bird Beak
• The way some plants have adapted to life in dry
• Animals Claws

Bird feaathers

In addition to flight and body feathers, birds also have down feathers. Down feathers are soft and fluffy because they don't have barbules and barbicels (the structures that hook feather barbs together). Down feathers help to keep a bird warm by trapping air close to the body, which insulates the bird from the cold.

By: María Gabriela Mosquera

The way some plants have adapted to life in dry

Plants will absorb water through their roots and release water as vapor into the air through these stomata. To survive in drought conditions, plants need to decrease transpiration to limit their water loss. Some plants that live in dry conditions have evolved to have smaller leaves and therefore fewer stomata.

Bird Beaks

The beak is the characteristic type of mouth of birds and is also found in other animals. It is composed of the upper jaw and lower jaw or jaw and characteristically coated with a cornea case called a ranfoteca.

Animals claws

The claws are the hands or feet provided with long, sharp nails that have some vertebrates, especially birds, reptiles and various orders of mammals, such as Carnivora, Insectivora, Rodentia, Lagomorpha, Chiroptera and Edentata. It is adapted to aid in the dam, allowing precise and firm grip on predators, and also helping to dig and climb; Morphogenetic studies indicate that the long, sharp nail is the oldest form of nail present among vertebrates, being the typical flat form in humans or the helmet of evolutionary modification artiodactyls. When the fingers of a claw do not move individually relative to each other, as in the felines, the term paw is also used.

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