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The study of organism’s relationships to the environment and one another is called ecology. The ecological associations withstand an energy flow and materials from the earth, sun, oceans, atmosphere by organisms. The focuses of interest in ecology include biomass, distribution, biodiversity, organism’s population as well as competition and cooperation between and within species.
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