Ecosystem
A community of living and nonliving things that interact in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A sequence that shows how energy moves from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
It is located in the nucleus of a cell.
Where is DNA located?
An organism’s role in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
A structure made of DNA that carries genes.
What is a chromosome?
Biotic are living (plants, animals); abiotic are nonliving (sunlight, water, soil)
hat is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
A section of DNA that controls a specific trait
What is a gene?
Population = one species; community = multiple species interacting
What is the difference between a population and a community?
One parent produces identical offspring
What is asexual reproduction?
The variety of living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
organisms that break down dead plants, animals, and waste into nutrients that return to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Different forms of a gene
What are alleles?
The species will compete until one adapts or leaves.
What is interspecies competition?
Two parents combine gametes to create genetically unique offspring.
What is sexual reproduction?
Both the species benefits.
What is Mutualism?
These animals eat both plants and animals as part of their diet.
What are omnivores?
Recessive and dominant.
What are the types of alleles?
When two species share the same habitat but use different parts or resources to avoid competition
What is Resource partitioning?
sexual and asexual
what are 2 types of reproduction?
Ecological interactions between different species.
What is symbiosis?
living things depend on each other to survive, grow, and stay balanced in an ecosystem.
What is interdependence?
A molecule that carries genetic information.
A molecule that carries genetic information.
When two species share the same habitat but use different parts or resources to avoid competition
What is the tiger’s niche?
It is located in the nucleus of a cell.
Where is DNA located ?