EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Population is defined as a group of individual of the same species, plant or animal, inhabiting a given area. Many such populations that are interacting with each other together form the community. The biotic community together with the abiotic environment together forms the ecosystem.

Detailed explanation-2: -“A population can be simply defined as a group of organisms of the same species living in a particular habitat.” In other words, the members of the same species living in the same place at the same time are termed as the population.

Detailed explanation-3: -Accordingly, a population is a group of individuals of the same species occupying a defined area at the same time (Hunter, 2002: 144).