Macromolecules
There are how many main types of macromolecules?
4
What is an organism?
An individual that carries out life processes.
List 3 cycles
Water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus
When do you have high birth rates?
When there are plenty of resources
What is mutualism?
A relationship where both species benefit
Carbohydrates only come from ____ sources?
Plant
When the same species lives in a specific area it is called what?
Population
Why is the carbon cycle so important?
It is the backbone of all living things and chains of carbon form the backbone of many molecules.
When birth rates and death rates become stable, the population levels off at what?
Carrying capacity
Parasitism is when
One benefits and the other is harmed
All macromolecules have what element?
Carbon
What is the biosphere?
All ecosystems
What is sublimation?
Conversion of a solid into a gas, with no liquid stage.
When do you have exponential growth?
When there are no limiting factors
What is commensalism?
One species benefits and the other is indifferent
What macromolecule has the most energy?
Fats
All different species in an ecosystem makes a _____.
Community
Evapotranspiration is when what occurs?
Water is soaked into the roots of plants and then evaporated from tiny openings.
What is logistic growth?
A model of population growth with limiting factors that limit at carrying capacity
What would this represent?
:) :/
Commensalism
What macromolecule has the least amount of energy?
Nucleic acid
List the 5 components of the organizational hierarchy.
Organism, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere
What is a stomata
A tiny pore that water evaporates from.
What does (k) represent?
Carrying capacity
Give an example of commensalism
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