<em>The botulinum toxin, a poison produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum (C. botulinum), is common in soil and exists in untreated water. It can survive in these environments as a resistant spore. Foodborne botulism is caused by consuming foods containing the botulinum toxin.</em>
Answer:
The correct option is D. potentially interacting populations of different kinds of organisms.
Explanation:
In biology, a community can be described as the different populations of organisms that live in a certain habitat at a certain period of time.
For example, consider a habitat where there are a different type of trees, different types of plants, different types of animals, different types of decomposers. All these populations of different organisms will make a community. All the organisms in a community interact with one another in some way or another.
Stagnate?? i didn't think that's it