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AB CH.1 Section 2
Question | Answer |
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Domain | in a modern taxonomic system, the broadcast category; the category that contains all kingdoms |
Ecology | the study of interactions between organisms and the other living and nonliving components of their enviroment |
Evolution | a heritable change in the characteristics within a population from one generation to the next;the development of new types of organisms from preexsisting types of organisms over time |
Adaption | the process of becoming adapted to an enviroment; an anatomical, physilogical, or behaviorial trait that improves an an organisms to survive and reproduce |
Kingdom | in traditional taxonomic system, the highest taxonomic category, which contains a group of phyla |
Ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic enviroments |
Natural Selection | the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their enviroment survive and reproduce ore sucessfully than less well adapted individuals do; a theory to explain the method of evolution |