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Biol 322 Midterm Exam 2025 Questions and Answers littoral environments - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-shallow, marine or freshwater littoral and estuarine environments - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-when a river flows into the ocean freshwater and lotic environments - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-flowing water (rivers, creeks) freshwater lentic environments - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-lake, pond, no current exaptation - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-the process in which existing structures take on new functions through descent with modification aptation - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-any useful trait, regardless of origin abaptation - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-any structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment; develops in a population over a long period of time acclimatize - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-within a life span, natural habitats, multi-variables acclimate - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-controlled, often with 1 variable acute time scale - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-short-term modulation developmental effects - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-alter gene expression to provide new biochem potentials or the quantities of an already exist proteins or traits (developmental plasticity) chronic effects - ....ANSWER☑️☑️...-phenotypic plasticity 1