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science ecology
ecology
Term | Definition |
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organism | any living thing |
biotic factors | a living organism |
abiotic factor | a nonliving thing |
offspring | new organism produced by a living thing |
asexual reprodution | reproduction requiring only one parent |
sexual reproduction | reproduction requiring two parents |
reproduction | process by which living things produce new organisms that are like themselves |
fission | simplest form of asexual reproduction |
budding | growth of new organism by parent organisms |
commensilism | relationship where one organism gets benefited and and the other is not harmed or helped |
mutualism | a relationship where both organisms are helped |
parasitism | a relationship where one organism is helped and one is harmed |
limited factor | any abiotic or biotic factor preventing a population from growing |
niche | a role an organism plays in its community |
habitat | the place an organism lives |
preditation | a feeding of one organism on another |
symbiosis | any close relationship between two or more species |