environment and living organism

Each and every living organism has its specific surrounding medium of environment with which it continuously interacts and remains fully adapte..

Each and every living organism has its specific surrounding medium of environment with which it continuously interacts and remains fully adapted. The environment is the sum total of physical and biotic conditions influencing the responses of the organism..

Introduction - The term ecology is derived from two Greek words (oikos - means 'house' or place to live and logos means 'a discussion or study'). Literally, ecology is the study of organism 'at home' in their native environment. The term was first introduced by Reiter ..

Environment includes all the factors that affect the form and growth of the organism. Habitat is the term given to the special environment in which an organism lives and grows. In order to survive, plants and animals develop special features c..

Introduction - The term ecology is derived from two Greek words (oikos - means 'house' or place to live and logos means 'a discussion or study'). Literally, ecology is the study of organism 'at home' in their native environment. The term was first introduced by Reiter ..

Introduction - Environment is defined as the surroundings in which the organism lives. The environment may be the physical environment, the chemical environment or the biological environment. Thus, the environment has t..

Summary - Environment is defined as the surroundings in which the organism lives. It has two components - abiotic and biotic. The abiotic environment includes the air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere) and land (lithosphere). The biotic environment i..

Need for Classification - More than a million species of living organisms have been discovered and described so far and a large number of them are yet to be discovered. Scientists involved in this task, called taxonomists, estimate that there may be around 30 million species of ..

Summary - Biologists estimate that there are about 30 million species of living organisms inhabiting this biosphere and only a million and half of it have been discovered and described so far. The species of plants and animals identified so far exhibit a great deal of variation ..

Introduction - Every organism whether plant or animal is unique in itself. There is a wide diversity in the flora (plants) and fauna (animals) in the worl..