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What is Natural Selection | the process of which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are moat likely to survive and reproduce |
What is an Adaptation | an inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment |
What is a niche | how an organism makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors of its habitat |
What is competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time |
What is predication | an interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients |
What is a predator | the organism that does the killing in a predication interaction |
What is symbiosis | any relationship in which two species live closely together and that benefits at least one of the species |
What is Mutualism | both species benefit |
What is Commensalism | none are helped and none are harmed |
What is Parasitism | one is helped and the other is harmed |
What is a parasite | benefits on a host in a parasitism interaction |
What is a host | an organism that a parasite lives on and provides a source of energy or a suitable environment for the parasite to live on |