Connecting Evolution & Ecology
The variation among living things in a particular ecosystem...
What is biodiversity?
The levels of ecological organization...
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
The complex network of feeding relationships among species...
What is food web?
Three types of viruses...
What is retrovirus, lytic virus, and lysogenic virus?
The study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving things within an environment...
What is ecology?
What is aquatic and terrestrial?
The three main types of symbiotic relationships...
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
The steps of viral replication...
What is attachment, entry, replication, assembly, and release?
The biological levels of organization...
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism?
(Name 3) The subsections of aquatic ecosystems...
What is marine, freshwater, swamp/marsh, estuary, coastal, and/or mid-ocean ridge?
Organisms that have a disproportionately large impact on their environment relative to their abundance...
What is keystone species?
The evidence of evolution...
What is fossil record, comparative anatomy, molecular biology, and biogeography?
Includes all members of a species that live in the same area at the same time...
What is population?
(Name 3) The subsections of terrestrial ecosystems...
What is tundra, taiga, temperate forest, tropical rainforest, grassland/prairie, savanna, chaparral, desert, and/or island?
The two main types of ecological succession...
What is primary and secondary succession?
The mechanisms of evolution...
What is natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow?
Includes all biotic factors and surrounding physical environment...
What is ecosystem?
The different trophic levels...
What is producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers?
The taxonomic hierarchy...
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
The lipid membrane that (some) viruses possess...
What is envelope?