Adaptations are different mechanism of species to increase their fitness according to the environmental pressures. Option B. It would have a shorter stem.
In biology, adaptation might be defined as the mechanism of organisms to improve their fitness in the environment in which they live.
Natural selection results in adaptation, which means the increase of the aptitude phenotype. Aptitude is the contribution of each genotype to the next generation.
Adaptations resulting from natural selection can be correlated to environmental factors or selective pressures applied by other organisms or habitat.
Adaptation involves molecular, physiological, morphological, and behavioral changes.
For these changes to persist and be transmitted from generation to generation, they must increase the individual's fitness. They must increase the individual survival and reproductive probabilities, making it more competitive.
Ivy plants have adapted to grow upward looking for sunlight. Its root system is not that developed but it is all along its stem helping the plant attach to its vertical substrate.
If environmental conditions would change, and the plant would not need to grow upward anymore, the first noticeable change would be a reduction in the stem growth. This would be because the plant would not need to get higher to reach more sunlight.
The correct option is B. It would have a shorter stem.
A) It would have brighter flowers ⇒ this would be an adaptation to attrack polinator agents
C) It would produce more seeds ⇒ this would be an adaptation to produce more fertile offspring and get to disperse more as species
D) The leaves would become needles ⇒ this would be an adaptation to avoid dehydration.
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