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Chap 1 section 2

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natural selection   a characteristic that makes idividuals better suited for their environment may eventually become common in that species through a process called natural selection  
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adaptation   behaviors and characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments  
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niche   the role if an organisms habitat,or how it makes its living,is called niche  
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competition   the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource  
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predation   an interaction in which on organism kills another for food  
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predator   the organism that does the killing  
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prey   the organism that is killed  
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symbiosis   a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species  
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mutualism   a relationship in whichboth species benefits  
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commensalism   a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed  
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parasitism   involves one oraganism living on or inside another organism and harming it.  
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parasite   the organism that benefits is called parasite  
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host   the the organism the parasite lives on or is is called the host  
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