Biological specificity

In biology, biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.

Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that

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Characteristics may further be described as being interspecific, intraspecific, and conspecific.

Interspecificity (literally between/among species), or being interspecific, describes issues between individuals of separate species. These may include:

Interspecies communication, communication between different species of animals, plants, fungi or bacteria

Interspecific competition, when individuals of different species compete for the same resource in an ecosystem

Interspecific feeding, when adults of one species feed the young of another species

Interspecific hybridization

Interspecific interaction, the effects organisms in a community have on one another

Interspecific pregnancy, pregnancy involving an embryo or fetus belonging to another species than the carrier

Intraspecificity (literally within species), or being intraspecific, describes behaviors, biochemical variations and other issues within individuals of a single species. These may include:

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