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Adaptation is the change in a population of organisms, differentiation is part of the mechanism that enables adaptation to take place.
Explanation:
A population will adapt to its environment. Foxes in the arctic are white, Foxes in the taiga forest tend to be grey and in the hardwood forest brown. Each type of fox is suited or adapted to the environment in which it lives.
Differentiation is part of the natural variation possible inherent in the existing DNA. The original population of foxes most likely had the possible variations of white, grey and brown.
Genetic drift would cause an increase in the population that is best suited to the environment. The gene for white fur is most likely a recessive gene that results in the lose of genetic information for color. Over time the population of white foxes would become the dominate variation. This is adaptation to the environment.
Adaptation is the selection of which variation is nbest suited to the environment. Differentiation is the possible variations in the original population
