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The structural and functional unit of an environment is called?


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Ecosystem:

  1. All living organisms such as plants, animals, microbes, humans, etc, and non-living components such as soil, water, heat light, etc, together constitute an ecosystem,
  2. The term 'Ecosystem' was introduced by an English botanist named A.G.Tansley in 1935.
  3. The structure of an ecosystem contains both biotic and abiotic factors.
  4. These factors interact with each other and are interdependent on each other.

Hence, the structural and functional unit of the environment is called the ecosystem.


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