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        | one that employs concepts and techniques from numerous disciplines and brings research results from these disciplines together into a broad synthesis |  
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        | Sustainability Development |  
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        | Use of resource to satisfy current needs without compromising future availability |  
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        | traits that enhance survival and reproduction continue in population |  
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        | a trait that promotes reproductive sucess |  
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        | An error in the DNA that may surpass in the offsprings |  
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        | Drives a feature in one direction |  
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        | Extremes are selected against |  
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        | trait diverge in two or more directions |  
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        | conducted under human direction |  
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        | a burst of species diversification that occurs in response to environment change |  
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        | members can produce fertile offspring |  
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        | a group of individuals of a species that live in the same area |  
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        | species formation due to physical separation |  
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        | populations becomes reproductively isolated within the same area |  
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        | species with a small geographic distribution |  
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        | quantitative dynamics of populations |  
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        | Interactions among species |  
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        | the environment in which an organism lives |  
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        | an organism's use of resources and its functional role in a community |  
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        | optimal niche --> unlimited resources |  
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        | a subset of fundamental niche due to species interactions--> more competition |  
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        | the number of individuals within a population |  
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        | Biosphere, Atmosphere, Geosphere and Hydrophere |  
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        | neither nor energy can be exchanged across the boundaries |  
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        | energy can be exchanged across the boundaries, but matter cannot |  
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        | Both matter and energy can be exchanged |  
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        | system process balancing, constantly changing and interactions |  
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        | system tends to maintain stable internal conditions |  
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        | system characteristics not evident in components on their own |  
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        | a system of two or more connected reservoirs that transfers matter and energy |  
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        | alternation the crops grown field from one season or year to the next |  
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        | plowing furrows sideways across a hillside |  
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        | level platforms are cut into steep hillside, forming "staircase" to contain water |  
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        | large expanse of a single crop |  
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        | an organisim that contains DNA from another species. And the genes that have been moved between them. |  
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