INTRODUCTION

in the environment, there are plants animals and microscopic organisms group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place at the same time is called population. tungl. Populations that interact in a given environment form a community, In community interactions within the

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among populations may have important influences to death rate and birth rates of the organisms and in turn on population growth and size. These Interactions may have positive, neutral or aven negative influences on Interacting populations. No specles lives independently. Just as a population is made up of individuals, several different populations make up a biological community. Blological community is made up of interacting populations in a certain area at a certain time. An example of a community is the community of flowers made up of different species of flowers in the grassland: Another example, a forest of trees and undergrowth plants
Inhabited by animals and rooted in soil containing bacteria and fungi, constitutes a biological community.

Learning Task 1. Which is which?"

Q1. What population of organisms do you see?

Q2. Name biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem?​


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