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Conspecificity is a concept in biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
. Two or more individual organism
Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
s, population
Population

File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings....
s, or taxa are termed conspecific if they belong to the same species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
.

The antonym
Antonym

In lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male : female, long : short, up : down, and precede : follow....
 is heterospecificity: two individuals are heterospecific if they are considered to belong to different biological species.

Where different species can interbreed and their gametes compete then conspecific gametes take precedence over heterospecific gametes.






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Conspecificity is a concept in biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
. Two or more individual organism
Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
s, population
Population

File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings....
s, or taxa are termed conspecific if they belong to the same species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
.

The antonym
Antonym

In lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male : female, long : short, up : down, and precede : follow....
 is heterospecificity: two individuals are heterospecific if they are considered to belong to different biological species.

Where different species can interbreed and their gametes compete then conspecific gametes take precedence over heterospecific gametes. This is known as conspecific sperm precedence or conspecific pollen precedence in plants.

See the discussion of mirror neuron
Mirror neuron

A mirror neuron is a neuron which action potential both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal....
 in which a neuron fires both when the animal performs an action and when the animal sees another animal perform the same action.

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