Regular Review 2024 Fall Final

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Artificial selection

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Selective breeding of organisms by humans for desired traits, such as dogs or cows.

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Apex predator

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Top predator in a food chain or food web.

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Primary consumer

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Organism that eats primary producers.

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Prey

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Organism that is hunted and eaten by other organisms.

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Logistic growth

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Population growth that levels off as resources become limited.

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Natural selection

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

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Symbiosis

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A close and long-term interaction between two different species.

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Carrying capacity

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Maximum number of individuals an environment can support.

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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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Food web

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.