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12 Cards in this Set
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Adaptations |
A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to survive or reproduce in its enviroment |
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Niche |
The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living |
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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 one organism kills another for food |
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Predator |
The organisms that does the killing in a predation interaction |
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Prey |
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism |
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Symbiosis |
A close relationship between two organisms of different species that benefits at least one of the organisms |
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Mutualism |
A close relationship between organisms of two species in which both organisms benefit |
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Commensalism |
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
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Parasitism |
A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it |
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Parasite |
The organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction |
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host |
the organism that a parasite or virus lives in or on |
