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Biology Ch 1 sec 2
Biology Chapter 1 section 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Domain | in a modern taxonomic system the broadcast category; the category that contains kingdoms |
| Kingdom | in a traditional taxonomic system, the highest taxonomic category, which contains a group of similar phyla |
| Ecology | the study of interactions between organism's and the other living and nonliving components or their environment |
| Ecosystem | a community of organism's and their abiotic environment |
| Evolution | a heritable change in the characteristics within a population from one generation to the next; the development of new types of organism's from preexisting types of organism's over time |
| Natural Selection | the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution |
| Adaption | the process of becoming adapted to an environment; an anatomical, physiological, or behavioral trait that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce |