Darius is observing a family of geese, which includes a male goose, female goose, and several goslings. when a dog approaches the geese, the male goose hisses at the dog and flaps its wings threateningly. is the behavior of the male goose an example of an adaptation?

The behavior of the male goose is NOT AN EXAMPLE OF ADAPTATION.

Adaptation refers to how an organism change its behaviors, structure or function in order to be able to cope successfully with a new change in its environment.

The behavior of the male goose is an example of the territorial nature of male geese and their readiness to defend their family anytime they feel threatened. Male geese normally have well defined territory which they defend at all time from other male geese, other animals, humans and their pets. Male geese generally are very protective of their partners and offspring.

the diploid number of chromosomes is sometimes represented by the symbol 2n. for the fruit fly, the diploid number is 8, which can be written as 2n = 8, where n represents twice the number of chromosomes in a sperm or egg cell.

the relative atomic mass of an element is the mass of one atom of that element, relative to 1/12th of the mass of a  1212c atom. to convert to an absolute mass in kg, it is necessary to multiply by  1.661×10−271.661×10−27.

the relative atomic mass is roughly equal to the number of neutrons, plus the number of protons, in the nucleus of the atom.

for elements with more than one stable isotope (different types of nucleus with different numbers of neutrons but the same number of protons), the quoted mass is usually the average mass, weighted by the relative abundance of the different isotopes.