General Knowledge
It is the study of the relationships between organisms and the living and nonliving parts of the environment.
What is ecology?
They include all non-living factors like soil composition, surrounding landforms, climate, etc.
What are abiotic factors?
They occur at the cell or tissue level in an organism.
What are physiological adaptations?
It's the result of other organisms attempting to use same resources.
What is competition?
It is the number of different species within an ecosystem or area.
What is biodiversity?
It includes all members of a species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
The particular type of environment where an organism can survive.
What is habitat?
Chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans share about this amount of the same DNA.
What is 85%?
It works on the same principle as natural selection, but with humans driving the selection process.
What is artificial selection?
It's when one organism benefits at the expense of the other.
What is parasitism?
It includes the biological community and its surrounding physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The land area within which an organism could be found.
What is geographic range?
What are structural differences in coloration, body shape, musculature, etc.
What are physical adaptations?
It is when competition occurs within members of the same species.
What is intraspecific competition?
The most common growth pattern, forming an "S" shape.
What is logistic growth?
It describes the process where individuals with certain genes survive and reproduce more successfully than others.
What is Natural Selection?
Where population levels will be growing or at their peak.
What is optimal range?
The type of adaptation that scent marking represents.
What is behavioral adaptation?
They are the closest relationships of all.
What are symbiotic relationships?
It is the maximum population that the ecosystem can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
This is groups of cells that have similar shape and function.
What is tissue?
Where levels of a factor are too high or too low. The population barely survives.
What is physiologic stress?
Random mutations in DNA cause this.
What is genetic diversity?
When one organism benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Factors which similarly affect all populations regardless of numbers.
Give an example.
What is density independent factors.
Weather, earthquake, fire, etc.