Which of the following is a permanent adaptation to a specific environment?
An ecotype is a genetically differentiated population adapted to the characteristic conditions of a local habitat. Natural selection can favour different alleles in populations occupying contrasting soils, climates, elevations, or salinities, producing inherited differences in morphology, physiology, phenology, or stress tolerance. These traits remain when individuals are raised in a common environment, which distinguishes an ecotype from an ecad. An ecad is a reversible, environmentally induced phenotype generated by plasticity without stable genetic differentiation. A clone consists of genet
Ref: NCERT Biology Class 12, Ch. 15 Biodiversity and Conservation