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10 Cards in this Set
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Structural Adaptation |
When the physical makeup of an organism matches its environment |
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Physiological adaptations |
How the parts of the organism function together to allow the organism to live in its environment |
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Behavioral adaptations |
The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus |
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Population |
All the organisms of the same group or species, which live in the same geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding |
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Environment |
All external conditions and factors , living and nonliving that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime |
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Variation |
An organism that has characteristics resulting from a change in its chromosomes (DNA) |
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Genetic diversity |
Having both species richness and species diversity in an ecological environment |
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Species richness |
How many different species are in an area (the more different species the better) |
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Species evennese |
Having about the same population numbers for different species (for example, if there are 40 foxes and 42 coyotes |
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Biodiversity |
The amount of biological or living diversity per unit area (includes the concepts of both habitat diversity and genetic diversity) |
