Transcript Population A population is a group of organisms of the same

Population
A population is a group of organisms of
the same species located in the same
place.
Population
Ex. The population of my hometown is
16,000 humans.
(These 16,000 organisms live in the
same geographical location)
Species
A group of organisms that are able to
interbreed with one another.
The term
species
can also mean the
largest possible population of
an organism.
Ex. The human species is a
population of almost 7 billion
organisms.
The term
population is used to
describe a specific
portion of a species.
population
Ex. The
of humans in
Minneapolis is 382,578 organisms.