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Phylogenetic classification

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Classification of organisms based on their evolutionary relationship and origins

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Species richness

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Number all of all different species in a community

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Index of diversity

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Relationship between number all of species and the number of individuals in the species

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When calculating index diversity was does the capital and lower case N stand for?

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N= total number of all organisms of all species

n=total number all of all organisms of each species

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5
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Name the order of taxons

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Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Order
Family
Genus
Spexies

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What is a niche

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The species role in an organism

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Natural selection

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Changes in alleles over many generations in a population

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Climax community

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Largest and most complex community

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Community

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All the populations of different species that live and interact and particularly area

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Succesion

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Process by which ecosystem change and adapt over time

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Ecosystem

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Community and non living components

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