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Define the following

Organism:
Population:
Community:
Ecosystem:
Biome:
Biosphere:

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organsim:

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

"fish and other organisms have been destroyed over large areas of the creek"

population:

In biology, a population is a number of all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding.

communtiy:

a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

"the scientific community"

ecosystem:

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

"the marine ecosystem of the northern Gulf had suffered irreparable damage"

biome:

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.

biosphere:

the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.

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