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Chapter 37 bio
final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define Community. | An assemblage of all the populations of organisms living close enough together for potential interaction and described by its species composition. |
| Define Interspecific interactions. | Relationships with individuals of other species in a community. |
| Define Interspecific competition. | When populations of two different species compete for the same limited resource. |
| Define mutualism. | Both populations benefit. |
| Define predation. | One species (the predator) kills and eats another (the prey). |
| Define herbivory. | An animal consumes plant parts or algae. |
| Define parasitism. | The host plants or animals are victimized by parasites or pathogens. |
| Define ecological niche. | A sum of an organism's use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment. (Habitat plus all of its interations) |
| Define coevolution. | A series of reciprocal evolutionary adaptations in two species, change in one species acts as a new selective force of another. |