The blue feet of the blue-footed booby.

What is sexual selection?
Photosynthetic floating organisms.
What are phytoplankton?
Genetic changes within a population accumulated over many generations.
What is evolutionary adaptation?
All individuals of a single species that can interact and mate.
What is a population?
A clownfish lives inside a sea anemone.

What is mutualism?
The camouflage of this seahorse.

What is natural selection?
Any organism that lives in or on the sea bottom.
What are benthos?
The only process by which asexual organisms can increase genetic diversity.
What is mutation?
All interacting species within a particular area.
What is a community?
The tongue louse in the mouth of a fish.
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What is parasitism?
The stinging nematocysts in a jellyfish tentacle.

What is natural selection?
Active swimmers in the pelagic division.
What are nekton?
A measure of survival and reproductive success within a population.
What is fitness?
All living and nonliving components of an area.
What is an ecosystem?
A barnacle attaches to a whale.

What is commensalism?
The large claw of fiddler crabs.

What is sexual selection?
Animals that live within the sediment of the seafloor.
What are infauna?
A condition where two separate populations have little to no gene flow.
What is reproductive isolation?
All of Earth's potential habitat areas.
What is the biosphere?
A decorator crab attaches sponges to its shell.

What is mutualism?
The flashing behavior of cuttlefish.

What are natural and sexual selection?
Benthic organisms that are between 100 and 500 microns in size.
What are meiofauna?
The swapping of genetic information between chromosomes during meiosis metaphase I that increases genetic diversity.
What is crossing over?
Specific regions of the world with similar dominant vegetation and animals present.
What is a biome?
An imperial shrimp that rides on a sea cucumber.

What is commensalism?