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13 Cards in this Set
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Adaptations
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a behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment
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Commensalism
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a relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
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Competition
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the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource
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Host
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the organism that a parasite lives on or in a parasitism interaction
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Mutualism
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a relationship between two species in which both species benefit
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Natural Selection
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a process by which characteristics that make an individual better suited to its environment became more common in a species
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Niche
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the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living
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Parasite
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the organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction
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Parasitism
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a relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it
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Predation
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an interaction in which one organism kills another for food
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Predator
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the organism that does the killing in a predation interaction
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Prey
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an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
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Symbiosis
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a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species
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