Bio 182 Final Exam Latest Update Graded A+

Bio 182 Final Exam Latest Update Graded A+ abiotic components air, water, and non-living parts of soil age-specific fecundity the average number of female offspring produced by a female in a given age-class altruism behavior that has a fitness cost to the individual exhibiting it and a fitness benefit to the recipient, appears to contradict this pattern (queen bees giving themselves up for the queen to reproduce) asymmetric competition one species suffers a much greater fitness decline than the other Batesian Mimicry Resemblance of an innocuous prey species to a dangerous species (Look dangerous but aren't dangerous) behavior an action or response to a stimulus behavioral biology study of how organisms respond to particular stimuli from those environments biomes major groupings of plant and animal communities defined by a dominant vegetation type boreal forest (taiga) forms on subarctic lands, dominated by highly cold-tolerant conifers; productivity is low, above-ground biomass is high because slow-growing tree species may be long-lived and become big character displacement evolutionary change that occurs in species trait and enables species to exploit different resources circadian clock maintains a 24-hour rhythm of chemical activity-animals use sun for direction climate the prevailing, long-term weather conditions found in an area commensalism occurs when one species benefits, but the other species is unaffected