Week 13 Vocab
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A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area and interbreed.
Population
The number of individuals of the same species that live in a given unit of area.
Density
In ecology, the pattern of distribution of organisms in a population.
Dispersion
An expression of the increase in the size of an organism or population over a given period of time.
Growth Rate
The maximum number of offspring that a given organism can produce.
Reproductive Potential
Logarithmic growth, or growth in which numbers increase by a certain factor in each successive time period.
Exponential Growth
The largest population that an environment can support at any given time.
Carrying Capacity
The unique position occupied by a species, both in terms of its physical use of its habitat and its function within an ecological community.
Niche
The relationship between two species (or individuals) in which both species (or individuals) attempt to use the same limited resource such that both are negatively affected by the relationship.
Competition
An interaction between two species in which one species, the predator, feeds on the other species, the prey.
Predation
A relationship between two species in which one species, the parasite, benefits from the other species, the host, and usually harms the host.
Parasitism
A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
Mutualism
A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
Commensalism
A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other.
Symbiosis