As 91155
As 91155
AS91155
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Achievement Standard
Subject Reference
Biology 2.3
Title
Level
Subfield
Science
Domain
Biology
Credits
Assessment
Internal
Status
Registered
Status date
17 November 2011
31 December 2014
17 November 2011
Demonstrate comprehensive
understanding of adaptation
of plants or animals to their
way of life.
Explanatory Notes
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This achievement standard is derived from The New Zealand Curriculum, Learning
Media, Ministry of Education, 2007, Level 7. It is aligned with the following
achievement objective in the Living World strand:
Life Processes
Explore the diverse ways in which animals and plants carry out the life processes
and is related to the material in the Teaching and Learning Guide for Biology,
Ministry of Education, 2010 at http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz.
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Adaptation involves the range of ways in which organisms have developed strategies
to carry out the life processes. An adaptation refers to a feature and its function as it
enables an organism to carry out a life process and thus occupy a specific ecological
niche. It may include structural, behavioural, or physiological features of an
organism. An adaptation provides an advantage for the organism in its specific
habitat and ecological niche.
Way of life encompasses the ways in which an organism carries out all its life
processes. It includes:
relationships with other organisms competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism
reproductive strategies
adaptations to the physical habitat.
Replacement Information
This achievement standard replaced unit standard 6311.
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Quality Assurance
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assess by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against
achievement standards.
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