what came first the chicken or the egg?

(Edit)"In practice, it is impossible to pinpoint the moment when this happened. But in theory, at some trace, two junglefowl bred along with offspring was genetically different enough from the species of its parents classified as chicken. This chicken would have developed within a junglefowl egg and only produced the very first chicken’s egg on reaching maturity. Looking at it this way, the chicken came first."

was orange named orange cause it's orange or was the color orange was named orange cause it's orange

Not sure if I'm correct but I'm pretty sure the color was called orange because it resembled the color of the fruit orange.

what does disruptions mean

Something that prevents something from occurring. E.g. if a trench is formed between a population, the populations on opposite sides are not able to reproduce/interact with each other.

what came first the orange color or orange? 🍊

The fruit came first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic naranj, from the Persian narang, from the Sanskrit naranga (“orange tree”).

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Course: Middle school biology - NGSS > Unit 6

Lesson 1: Ecosystem dynamics

Ecosystem dynamics

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Review your understanding of ecosystem dynamics in this free article aligned to NGSS standards.

Key points:

Ecosystems are dynamic. This means that the characteristics of ecosystems and their populations vary over time.
Ecosystems often experience disruptions, or changes. These changes can happen in either living or nonliving parts of an ecosystem. Any change in an ecosystem can affect the populations that live there.
- Some changes make it less likely that organisms in a population will survive and reproduce. These types of changes cause populations to get smaller.
- Other changes make it more likely that organisms in a population will survive and reproduce. These types of changes cause populations to get bigger.
Interactions that happen in an ecosystem are like a web. So, a change in any one part of an ecosystem can lead to changes in many of the ecosystem’s populations.

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