Regular Review 2024 Fall Final

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Invasive species

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Non-native species that spreads and causes harm to the ecosystem.

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Symbiosis

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Interaction between different species.

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Carrying capacity

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Maximum number of individuals an environment can support.

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Vestigial structure

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Structure that has lost its original function in the course of evolution.

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Directional selection

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Natural selection that favors and selects for one extreme.

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Natural selection

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Process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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Ecosystem

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A community of living organisms and their interactions with their environment.

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Biodiversity

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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Food chain

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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Photosynthesis

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Process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.