Question

2. What is adaptive radiation?

A. The ability of a species to survive in all environments.

B. The diversification of one or a few species into a varied group of descendant species.

C. The beneficial interaction between two or more different species.

D. The development of specialized features in a particular species.

Answer 1

Adaptive radiation is the process in which the organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species to multiple new forms. This perticular take place when there is change in environment makes new sources availability and new challenges . Example of this radiation is Darwin's finches which occupy the Galapagos islands and diversify into different species.

Hence diversification of one or a few species into a varied group of descendents species is correct.

Hence option (b) is correct.