Critter Characteristics
This activity encourages students to apply their knowledge of natural selection, ocean life, and ocean zones to observe and analyze the unique adaptations needed by organisms that exist in the deep ocean.
Keyword: Adaptations
Appearances are Deceiving
This lesson is intended to introduce students to selection processes that govern convergent evolution. Students will focus on analogous physical and behavioral characteristics of organisms that are found in the deep ocean and how these characteristics are adaptive to this environment. Additionally students will discuss the analogous nature of the chemicals that produce bioluminescence and […]
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Research programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) encompass the entire ocean, from the surface waters to the deep seafloor, and from the coastal zone to the open sea. The need to understand the ocean in all its complexity and variability drives MBARI's research and development efforts.