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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