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Question | Answer |
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Natural Selection | A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment may eventually become common in that species through a process |
Adaptions | Offspring that can inherit these characteristics also live to reproduce |
Competition | If two species occupy the same niche one of the species will eventually die off |
Predition | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food |
Predator | The organism that does the killing |
Prey | THe organism that is killed |
Symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
Mutualism | A relationship in which both species benefit |
Parasitism | Involves one organism living on or inside an organism and harming it |
Parasite | The organism that benefits |
Host | The organism it lives on or in |
Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat or how it makes its living |