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Biodiversity S 1.0

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Interspecies competition   In which individuals of different species compete for the same resource in an ecosystem  
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Symbiosis   Interaction between 2 species  
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Niche   a shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament.  
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Variability   also refers to the extent to which these data points differ from each other.  
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Genus   a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family,  
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Commensalism   an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.  
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Species   is often defined as the largest group of organisms  
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Community   a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.  
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Ecosystem   a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.  
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Parasitism   is a relationship between two things in which one of them (the parasite) benefits from or lives off of the other, like fleas on your dog.  
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Population   all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.  
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Biological diversity   means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part  
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Mutualism   the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well-being.  
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Resource partitioning   So, when species divide a niche to avoid competition for resources, it is called resource partitioning.  
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