Explain How Non-Native Organisms Can Be Harmful to Native Ecosystems

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Essay

Explain how non-native organisms can be harmful to native ecosystems and their organisms.

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Definitions:

Turgor

Pressure that a fluid exerts against a structure that contains it.

Hypertonic

A solution having a higher concentration of solutes compared to another solution, resulting in the movement of water out of a cell if placed in such a solution.

Hypotonic

Describes a fluid that has a low overall solute concentration relative to another fluid.

First Law of Thermodynamics

A principle stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred, in a closed system.