Population Ecology
This term refers to the area inhabited by a population.
What is geographic range?
This growth pattern forms a J-shaped curve.
What is exponential growth?
Competition and disease are examples of this type of limiting factor.
What are density-dependent factors?
Surviving and reproducing is the definition of this.
What is fitness?
These two domains contain prokaryotes.
What are Archaea and Bacteria?
Populations may be spread out randomly, uniformly, or in clumps.
What are distribution patterns?
This growth pattern forms an S-shaped curve.
What is logistic growth?
Hurricanes and wildfires affect populations regardless of size.
What are density-independent factors?
In this type of selection, the average trait is favored.
What is stabilizing selection?
These kingdoms contain organisms with a nucleus and organelles.
What are Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia?
This describes the number of males and females, and their ages.
What is age structure?
Growth slows in logistic growth when resources become this.
What is limited?
Competition, predation, and food access are examples of these.
What are density-dependent limiting factors?
This type of selection has two peaks and favors extremes.
What is disruptive selection?
The purpose of meiosis is to produce these cells.
What are gametes?
This describes whether a population increases, stays the same, or decreases.
What is growth rate?
This is the maximum population an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
These factors increase in effect as population increases.
What are density-dependent factors?
Crossing over happens during this stage of meiosis.
What is Prophase I?
Meiosis produces four cells with this chromosome condition.
What are haploid cells?
This type of distribution often occurs when organisms cluster around resources.
What is clumped distribution?
Carrying capacity is determined by these.
What are limiting factors?
These factors affect populations the same no matter how large they are.
What are density-independent factors?
This theory states species must constantly adapt just to survive.
What is the Red Queen Theory?
This is the correct order of taxonomic groups from largest to smallest.
What is Domain → Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species?