Chapter 13 Flashcards
An adaptive growth response of plants to herbivory in which removal of plant tissues stimulates the plant to produce new tissues.
compensation
A defense against predators in which prey species have a shape or coloration that provides camouflage and allows them to avoid detection.
crypsis
A relationship in which individuals of one species benefit by feeding on, and thus directly harming, members of a second species (a +/– relationship); examples of such relationships include predation, herbivory, and parasitism.
exploitation
A heterotroph that eats the tissues or internal fluids of living plants or algae.
herbivore
In plant–herbivore interactions, a defense against herbivory, such as production of a secondary compound, that is stimulated by herbivore attack.
induced defense
A defense against predators in which prey species resemble less palatable organisms or physical features of their environment, causing potential predators to mistake them for something less desirable to eat.
mimicry
An insect that lays one or a few eggs on or in a host organism (itself usually an insect), which the resulting larvae remain with, eat, and almost always kill.
parasitoid
An organism that kills and eats other organisms, referred to as its prey.
predator
An organism eaten by a predator.
prey
A chemical compound in plants not used directly in growth, and often used in such functions as defense against herbivores or protection from harmful radiation.
secondary compound
A predator that hunts by remaining in one place and attacking prey that move within striking distance.
sit-and-wait predator
A defense against predators in which prey species that contain powerful toxins advertise those toxins with bright coloration; also called aposematic coloration.
warning coloration
