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chapter 1 section 3 interactions among living things
Question | Answer |
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natural selection | indivisuals whose unique characteristics are best suited for their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. |
adaptions | the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environment. |
niche | every organism has a variety of adaptions that are suited to its specific living conditions. |
competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource. |
predation | when one organism kills another for food. |
predator | the organism that does the killing in predation. |
prey | the organism that is killed in predation. |
symbiosis | a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one species. |
mutualism | a relationship where both species benefits. |
commensalism | a relationship where one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed. |
parasitism | involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it. |
parasite | the organism that lives in or on the other organism. |
host | the organism that the parasite lives on. |