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Chapter 1
Interaction among living things
Question | Answer |
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Natural Selection | A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment. |
Adaptations | The behaviors and physical characteristic that allow organisms to live Successfully and their environment. |
Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat,or how it makes it living. |
Competition | If two species occupy the same niche,one of the species will eventually die of. |
Predation | An interaction in which one organism killing,another for food. |
Predator | The organism that does the killing,in this the tiger shark. |
Prey | The organism that is killed,in this case the albatross. |
Symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits. |
Mutualism | A relationship in which both species benefit. |
Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits And the other species is neither helped nor harm. |
Parasitism | Involves one organism living on or inside a organism And harming it. |
Parasite | The organism that benefits a parasitism. |
Host | A organism that lives on a parasite |