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Themes in Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| domain | in a modern taxonomic system, the broadcast category; the category that contains kingdoms |
| kingdom | in a traditional taxnomic system, the highest taxnomic category, which contains a group of similar phyla |
| ecology | the study of the interactions between organisms and the other living and nonliving components of their environment |
| ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic environment |
| evolution | a heritable change in the characteristics within a population to the next; the development of new types of organisms from preexsisting types of organisms over time |
| natural selection | the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment, survive and reproduce more sucessfully than less well adapted individuals do;a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution |
| adaptation | the process of becoming adapted to an environment; an anatomical, physcological, or behavioral trait that improves an organisms ability to survive and reproduce |