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community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

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ecosystem

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living things that make up an ecosystem

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Biotic Factors

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all non-living things in an ecosystem

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Abiotic Factors

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an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

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organism

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a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

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species

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amount of animals living in a particular area

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population

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a particular area or place considered together with its inhabitants

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community

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the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

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habitat

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the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive

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natural selection

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organisms are thought to have developed and diversified

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evolution

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organisms that produce energy

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producers/ autotrophs

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an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

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consumers/ heterotrophs

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herbivores

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primary consumer

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carnivores

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secondary consumer

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omnivores

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tertiary consumer

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plant eating animals

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herbivores

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meat eating animals

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carnivores

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plant and meat eating anmals

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omnivers

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organisms that break down waste material

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decomposers

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a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

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food chain

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a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

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food web

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model of energy flow in a community

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energy pyramid

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the series of processes by which carbon compounds are created

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carbon cycle

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the series of process by nitrogen is created

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nitrogen cycle

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is the process of change in the species structure

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ecological succession

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environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil, such as

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primary succession

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is a process started by an event forest fire, harvesting, hurricane

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secondary succession

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a hardy species which are the first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems

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pioneer species

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the final stage of succession

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climax community

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a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

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ecosystem

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the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities

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classification

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the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematic.

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taxonomy

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the system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the specific epithet.

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binomial nomenclature

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a taxonomic group of any rank, such as a species, family, or class.

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taxon

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a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds

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genus

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all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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family

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a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes

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order

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well-known ranks in descending order of size are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, order, family, genus, and species, with class fitting between phylum and order.

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class

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taxonomic rank at the level below kingdom and above class

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phylum

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a rank equivalent to phylum

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division

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a taxonomic category of the highest rank, grouping together all forms of life having certain fundamental characteristics

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kingdom

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taxonomic rank of organisms

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domain

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the branch of biology that deals with phylogenesis.

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phylogeny

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any observable feature, or trait, of an organism, whether acquired or inherited

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characters

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the smallest physical unit of an element or compound, consisting of one or more like atoms in an element and two or more different atoms in a compound

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molecular clock

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a method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common

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cladistics

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a branching diagram showing the cladistic relationship between a number of species.

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cladogram

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a domain and kingdom of single-celled microorganisms.

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archaea

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any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal

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protists

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any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds

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fungus

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A phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals that comprises the sponges

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porifera

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any invertebrate animal characterized by the specialized stinging structures in the tentacles surrounding the mouth

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cnidaria

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Any of various worms or worm like animals characterized by an elongated, cylindrical body divided into ringlike segments

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Annelida

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The asexual polyp in the life cycle of a hydrozoan

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Hydroid

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a free-swimming marine coelenterate that is the sexually reproducing form of a hydrozoan or scyphozoan and has a nearly transparent saucer-shaped body and extensible marginal tentacles studded with stinging cells.

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jellyfish

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unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.

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platyhelminthes

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was one of the first animals to have its entire genome sequenced and is important in biological research as a model organism

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nematoda

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A small nematoid worm that inhabits the rectum of the human host

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pinworms

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Any of the ribbon-like parasitic worms of the class Cestoda,

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tapeworms

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having a shell consisting of two halves hinged together

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bivalves

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typically have a well-defined head with two or four sensory tentacles with eyes, and a ventral foot

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Gastropods

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have a body cavity called a coelom with a complete lining called peritoneum derived from mesoderm

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coelomate

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an invertebrate lacking a coelom; especially :one belonging to the group comprising the flatworms and nemerteans

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Acoelomate

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symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.

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Radial Symmetry

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The lack or absence of symmetry

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Asymmetry

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arrangement of an organism or part of an organism along a central axis, so that the organism or part can be divided into two equal halves

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Bilateral symmetry

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A narrow, flexible, unjointed part extending from the body of certain animals

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Tentacle

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