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what is biodiversity?

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measure of species and ecosystem health

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What is species richness?

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Relative species abundance

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what is predation?

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One organism consumers another for food

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what is competition?

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2 or more organisms need the same resources

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what is commensalism?

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one organisms benefit but the other is not affected by the relationship

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What is mutualism?

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both organisms gain from the relationship

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what is parasitism?

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one organisms will suffer while the other benefits

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what is abiotic factors?

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limit ecosystems climate, substrate, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, light

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what is environmental factors?

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limit the distribution and abundance of species in an ecosystem

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what is classification?

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Hierarchical system based on different level of similarity of physical features, methods of reproduction and molecular sequences

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what is Linnaean?

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similarity of physical features

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what is K selection?

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produce few offsprings to increase survival

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what is r selection?

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produce many offspring knowing that most will die

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what is cladistics?

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molecular phylogeny used for comparison

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what is clade?

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a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor

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what is interspecific hybrid?

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infertile offspring from 2 species that are similar

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define disease

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relationship where the parasite causes the host to get sick

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what is microhabitat?

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tiniest place an organism can live

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what is niche?

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preferred place organism wants to live

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what is ecosystem naming?

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by the dominant plants that inhabit the region

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what is stratified sampling?

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estimating populations, density, distribution using a set method

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what is a quadrant?

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set area that is used to count species

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what is transect?

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a line within an area that is used to determine where samples are taken

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what is biomass?

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the mass of organic material in an ecosystem

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what is carbon cycle?
the movement of carbon from atmosphere to ocean to earth and back again
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what is a food chain?
a sequence of food transfers from producers through several levels of consumers in an ecosystem
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what is a food web?
a network of interconnected food chains
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what is a food pyramid?
tropic levels of consumers with autotrophs on the bottom that show the gradual reduction in number of organisms
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what is radiation?
the emission of heat to the environment
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what is reflection?
heat that is reflected back onto the environment
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what is absorption?
heat that is absorbed from the environment
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what is energy transfer?
the transfer of energy thought the components of the ecosystem
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what is trophic level?
level within a food web
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what is productivity?
the rate that energy is added to the bodies of organisms in the form of biomass
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what is ecological niche?
the role and position a species has in its environment and is affected by abiotic and biotic factors
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what is a keystone species?
a species that is not usually abundant in a community
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what is carrying capacity?
the number of individuals that an environment can sustain
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what is limiting factors?
environmental factors that restrict population growth
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what is natality?
birth rate
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what is mortality?
Death rate
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what is immigration
new organisms moving into an area
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what is emigration?
organisms leaving an area
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what is the Lincoln index
used to estimate the size of closed populations marked recapture method
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what is j curve?
population growth of a new species with unchecked growth
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what is s curve?
population growth of a species where the population is checked by environmental factors to stabilise
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what is logistic growth?
population growth with no restrictions
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what is population limiting factors?
anything that constrains a populations size or strops it from growing
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what is ecological succession?
the process of biological community change resulting from disturbance, transition in the species, composition of a biological community usually following a catastrophic event
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what is pioneer communities?
the first species into an area following a catastrophic event
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what is climax communities?
The final stage of biotic succession attainable by a plant community in a stable environment
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what is primary succession?
plants and animals first colonise a barren, lifeless habitat
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what is secondary succession?
an area that was previously occupied by living things is disturbed, the re-colonized following the disturbance
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what is nitrogen fixation?
the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen N2 into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use
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what is tolerance?
an organisms capacity to survive variation in environmental conditions
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what is germination?
process where an organism grows from a seed or a spore
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what is temporal succession?
habitat lifespan relative to the generation time of the organism
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what is spatial succession?
the distance between habitat patches relative to the dispersal distance of the organism
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what is DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid-genetic material that organisms inherit from their parents
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what are chromosomes?
gene carrying structure found in the nucleus
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what is histones?
protein found in chromosomes that bind to DNA to give chromosomes their shape
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what is cytosol?
intracellular fluid
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what is mitochondria?
site of respiration within the cell organelle
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what is complementary base pairing?
Chargaff's rule-DNA base pairs the same every time A-T and C-G
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what is nucleotide?
molecule that holds DNA and RNA together made up of phosphate group, 5 carbon sugar and nitrogenous base
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what is helicase?
enzyme that unzips DNA
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what is DNA polymerase?
responsible for synthesising DNA
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