STUDY: Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Langur, an endangered animal. Photo courtesy of digitalART2/Flickr.

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Genus: group of species that share similar traits.

Half-life: The time it takes for half of a given quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay into another isotope.

Sink population: a population in which mortality exceeds reproductive success.

Source Population: a population in which reproductive success exceeds mortality.

Species: Specific kind of organism that can with one another.

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