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| Biotic Community |
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| Biotic community is an association of a number of interrelated and independent populations belonging to different species, in a common environment which can survive in nature. |
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| Biotic community comprises a number of populations of different species interacting between them and the abiotic environment. These populations include animal community, plant community and 'microbial community', sharing a common environment and exhibit various types of direct or indirect relationship among themselves. |
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| Examples of biotic community are pond community, grassland community, forest community etc. |
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| Relationship between Species in a Genus and Species in a Community |
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| Both genus and community are formed of many species. But the two differ from each other in some basic characters. |
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| Species in a genus have a common ancestry. They occur in different geographical regions and often have no functional relation or interaction among them. |
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| Species in community do not have a common ancestry. They inhabit a common environment and have direct or indirect functional relation or interaction between them. |
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| Differences between genus and community |
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