‘Realized niche’ of an organism can be best described as:
1. | the area a species can occupy in the face of exploitive competition |
2. | the habitat of a species within a community resulting from clumping |
3. | the habitat that exists in nature as opposed to the ideal |
4. | the life pattern that the organism actually assumes |
The competitive exclusion principle can be best expressed as:
1. | the more abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition |
2. | competition for the same resources excludes species having different lifestyles |
3. | no two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely when resources are limited |
4. | larger organisms exclude smaller ones through competition as in the case of large trees controlling underbrush |
Whale barnacles attach typically to baleen whales without harming them. This relationship is called as:
1. | vitalism | 2. | mutualism |
3. | parasitism | 4. | commensalism |
A parasitism that does not involve feeding on the body of the host is:
1. | ectoparasitism | 2. | endoparasitism |
3. | parasitoids | 4. | brood parasitism |
The adaptation that a prey species avoid being detected by a predator would be:
1. Mullerian mimicry
2. Batesian mimicry
3. aposematic coloration
4. cryptic coloration
The appearance of an animal that warns predators it is toxic, distasteful or dangerous is called as:
1. Batesian mimicry
2. Mullerian mimicry
3. aposematic coloration
4. cryptic coloration
The chemical defence produced by plants against herbivory are:
1. | primary metabolites | 2. | secondary metabolites |
3. | cofactors | 4. | pollens |
All the following are symbiotic relations except:
1. monarch butterflies and viceroy butterflies
2. lichens
3. mycorrhizae
4. tapeworms and humans
To avoid herbivory milkweeds secret latex containing:
1. cardiac glycosides
2. stipules
3. mustard oils
4. strychnine
The two species physically interfere with one another by aggressively attempting to exclude one another from particular habitats in:
1. | competitive exclusion | 2. | predation |
3. | exploitative competition | 4. | interference competition |