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ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |