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Dictionary » H » Habitat HabitatDefinition noun, plural: habitats (1) Place where an organism or a biological population normally lives or occurs. (2) The location or environment where an organism (or a thing) is most likely to be found, e.g. the body part of the host of a parasite as in the scalp of the host is the habitat of a head louse. (3) The home to a particular organism where the species will attempt to be as adaptive as possible to that particular environment. (4) The place being occupied by an organism, population, or community.
Word origin: from Latin, it dwells, third person sing. present of habitāre, to dwell. Related forms: habitation (noun), habitable (adjective).
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Results from our forumRe: humans the coordinating species?... are bacteria and viruses. We like to think we're very important, ecologically, but other than the negative impacts our development has had on the habitat of other species, we're not really big movers on an ecological scale. Pretty much all the insects, which are the real ecological powerhouses, ...
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Re: Why do you keep talking about species kolean wrote (i.e. lions and tiger can cross breed, but simply don't because they do not share the same habitat)....Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Ashley Montague) I did not say this. Another analogy would be apples ...
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Re: Why do you keep talking about species Canalon wrote (i.e. lions and tiger can cross breed, but simply don't because they do not share the same habitat)....Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Ashley Montague) Yes they can cross breed, but they wouldn't, and its ...
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Re: Why do you keep talking about species kolean wrote (i.e. lions and tiger can cross breed, but simply don't because they do not share the same habitat)....Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Ashley Montague) Yes they can cross breed, but they wouldn't, and its ...
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Why do you keep talking about species... hold water as many examples have been given to you (i.e. lions and tiger can cross breed, but simply don't because they do not share the same habitat), and different breed of dogs that could potentially still produce offspring (with IVF) don't as you pointed out with St Bernard and Chihuahua. ...
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