Answer: They are more likely to survive due to NATURAL SELECTION.
Explanation:
Adaptation of living organisms is the ability of these organisms to use its features which may by structural, physiological or behavioural to reproduce and survive in its environment.
NATURAL SELECTION plays an important role in the adaptation of organisms for survival. This is the process whereby the better fitted or adapted varieties of species in population are selected by environmental pressures. For example, a plant population in a region which had become drier climatically faces a water shortage problem not present previously. Among this plant population are a few individuals with a better developed root system and a thicker layer of cuticle. These individuals have a better chance of survival now because they can obtain a greater share of the limited water supply and reduce water loss from their surface more efficiently.
In the above example, the change to drier climate imposed an environmental pressure on the plant population. This affected the survival and reproduction of the individuals in the plant population in such a way that eventually a variety better adapted to the drier climate dominates the population.
