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All right, hearing this question, we are going to look at a term called the competitive exclusion principle.
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So i'm just going to use a little train of thoughts here to get to the definition of this principle.
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In an environment, you have a limited set of resources.
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Food, water, shelter, so forth.
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Each organism inside of an environment, inside of an ecosystem, a habitat, whatever you have, have requires a unique set of resources to survive it needs a certain type of environment to live in to produce offspring in to get food from to get water from whatever whatever it needs these are all the resources it needs this unique set of resources needed by an organism is called a niche you may have heard this term before but it's a it's basically a specific set of factors that are specific to an individual.
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And so an organism has a niche.
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It's all the resources that it needs uniquely to itself.
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Well, the competitive exclusion principle says that two species in an area.
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Make sure i got that right.
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Yeah, two species in an area cannot have the same niche.
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This is the definition of the competitive exclusion principle.
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If two species need to acquire the same exact resources, then there's not going to be enough resources for both of them to survive...