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Section 3 flashcards
Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| natural selection | Makes an individual better suited to it's enviorment that may eventually become common in that species through a process |
| adaptions | the behavior and physical characteristic that allow organisms to live in their environment |
| niche | The role a organism has in it's environment to life |
| competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| predator | the organism that does the killing in a predation interaction |
| predation | an interaction in which one organism kills another for food |
| prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism |
| symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
| mutualism | species that benefit both of the species |
| commensalism | a relationship between two species in one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
| host | the organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction |
| parasite | the organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction |
| parasitism | a relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it |