Quiz 2

Question 1

competition

Answer 1

interaction between two organisms or species that harms both in the process

• intra (within species)
• inter (between species)
• reduces the growth of both organism

Question 2

competitive exclusion principle

Answer 2

two species cannot live in the place at the same time if they are limited by one or more of the same limiting resources

Question 3

theory of limiting similarity

Answer 3

two species that are too similar cannot coexist

Question 4

resource partitioning

Answer 4

inferior species may switch to another resource if there is competition in one community

Question 5

temporal and spatial patchiness

Answer 5

the best competitor may not always find the best resource or the inferior competitor could find it first

Question 6

variance

Answer 6

how much individuals differ from the mean

Question 7

t score

Answer 7

a value that reflects how different two means are

- influenced by standard deviation and sample size

Question 8

p value

Answer 8

the probability that two means could be drawn from the same population or be not that different

• influenced by t score and sample size
• low score means that the difference is a true difference

Question 9

what is the evidence of mutualism or competition

Answer 9

competition was portrayed through the decrease in growth when put in the same pot as another organism compared to the growth when in a pot alone

Question 10

predation vs competition

Answer 10

predation is a relationship in which one organism in the relationship benefits and the other suffers while in competition both organisms in the relationship suffers

Question 11

how does an antibiotic just kill the bacteria and not human cells

Answer 11

antibiotics target a specific characteristic of the bacteria such as the cell wall or specific metabolic enzyme