Definition of environment

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environment

The term 'environment ' as it applies to the area of agriculture can be defined as 'within which an organism, community, or object exists. The term is not exclusive in that organisms can be and usually are part of another organism’s environment. Thus one can speak of the environment as that within which humankind lives, i.e., separate and external; or, one can speak of humankind as a component of the environment'.

The term 'environment ' as it applies to the area of basic science can be defined as 'sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of an organism, including the biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) elements'.


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