Biology Questions and Answers

Biology Questions and Answers

Concepts of Ecology

1. What is Ecology?

Ecology is the field of Biology that
studies the relationshibeings and between living bp between livineings andg
the environment.

2. What is a species?

A species is a set ocross among themselves gf living beings able toenerating
fertile offspring.
This concept however does not individuals of exclusive asexual apply to

reproduction and so othhave been proposed. For er definitionsexample, “a (^)
species is a set of living beings that
evolve iconsidered ancestorsn a common manner all of them of the same type
in relation to common descendants”.

3. What is a population?

A population is a sthe same species fet of individuals ofound in a given place (^)
in a given time.

4. What is a community? What
   is the difference between the
   concepts of community and
   population?

A community is a set of populations of

living beings that live in region and interact with each otthe sameher.

In Ecology a population ismembers (living in a given place a set win ahose

given time) are part of the same

species. A commupopulations of different species (living nity is a set of (^) in
a given place in a given time).

5. What is the difference
   between an ecological niche
   and a habitat?
   An ecological niche is a set of peculiar
   activities,a species e resources axplores to survive nd strategiandes that
   reproduce.

An habitat is the species lives to explore its ecologicalplace where the (^)
niche.
In other words it can be said that the
habitat is the “address” of the speciesand the ecological niche is the
“profession” of the species.

6. What are biotic factors?
   Biotic factors are living animals and microorganisms) that arebeings (plants,
   part of a given environment.


7. What are abiotic factors?

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