Interactions between organisms are called a biological interaction. Within these interactions, there are positive but also negative interactions that can be beneficial to some, harmful to the other and even neutral for the organism. The interaction between organisms can be break down to three big categories and amongst those categories, it can be break down to small subcategories.
First major relationship between organism that is most common and what defines the law of nature is prey-predator relationship. Prey-predator relationship is a relationship where an animal captures and eat the other animal for the source of energy. The example of prey-predator relationship can easily found in nature where in Africa, the lions are hunting gazelles
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It is a relationship where organisms compete for food, shelter, water, mate, minerals and etc. In competition, no organism is benefiting and every organism is harming, therefore there is no winner in competition. Intra and inter competitions are the two subcategory that makes up competition. Intra specific competition is an interaction in ecology, where the members of the same species compete for limited resources and inter specific competition is an interaction between different species competes for a shared resource. In the lab, intra specific competition was growing alfalfas, oats and tomatoes within own species. The same species of plants competed for the resources in soil that is essential to grow. Even within intra specific competition, the number of plants planted in the same pot made the difference in rigorousness of competition because the same species of plants are competing for limited resources, therefore higher number of plants planted in the same pot means less resources per plants. Similar to intra specific competition, inter specific competition competed for nutrients in soil, however, this time different species competed for a shared resources and there is always a superior competitor and inferior competitor in inter specific competition due to different species competing. The superior competitor can uptake more resource than the inferior …show more content…
The p- value is low enough to reject the null hypothesis and thus proving there is an interaction. The outcome of this inter specific competition between oats and alfalfa is that oats are a superior competitor than alfalfa and takes up more nourishment from the shared resources and use it to grow bigger. Also the oats intra specific competition is more rigorous than oats’ inter specific competition against alfalfas.
The difference between treatments with and without fertilizer is that when fertilizer was added to the plants, all three species of plants grew bigger in same amount of time compare to the plants that did not receive the fertilizer. This is due to the fact fertilizer supplies plant nutrients that are essential to grow the plants. Using the p-value in the table, I can reject the null hypothesis except for 25 alfalfas with 25 oats since its mean values are higher than the fertilized 25 alfalfas with 25
They come in various shapes, sizes, and colors, and are different in so many ways, but in the end, they all need each other to survive. This is the beauty of nature, in its most purest form, it is the perfect symbiotic
A symbiotic relationship is mutual benefit and dependence between two people that may seem dissimilar, but can be achieved if they work together. In a relationship where people are depending on and supporting each other, they may begin to rely on each other to survive. In the Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver writes about the Wisteria Vine and Rhizobia. The Wisteria vine thrives in poor soil because of the Rhizobia, a bug that lives underground in the roots of the Wisteria. They turn the soil into fertilizer so that the vine can live. In turn the vine provides a home for the microscopic bugs. Like the Wisteria Vine and Rhizobia need the other, Kingsolver introduces characters that have symbiotic relationships which emphasizes the importance of
the nonspecific or universal role of relationships been analyzed in the context of the larger novel.
Null Hypothesis: If different de icing techniques are used then there will be no statistically significant difference on the growth of Tall Fescue grass.
The different types of components of an ecosystem are connected. it is very important to know, because a change in the amount of abiotic resources available or a change in the size of anyone in a certain population of organisms can have impact on the size of the other populations found in that ecosystem. Also the interactions that take place between the organisms that are found in an ecosystem can change the characteristics of some populations. One example that characteristics can be influenced by population interactions include the proportion of individuals within a population to have a specific traits or the average height or weight of the members of that population. One type of interaction that can result in a change in the characteristics of a population is a predation. It often has strong influence on the characteristics of a prey population. biologist study how the characteristics of a specific prey population change in the response to a specific type of predation and to understand how different types of interactions can result in a change in the characteristics of a population.
The test is to see if spinach leaves discs can be effected by photosynthesis. I predicted that more disc would float in the light than in the dark. After writing down my hypothesis, I put the discs in water on a petri dish and waited 15 minutes. I then recorded if the in the light were floating or not. I also found out that the disc will also change color when they are in the light or in the dark. The hypothesis is supported when the light does have more disc floating in the petri dish than the dark did. I also determined other things as well such as the the dependent and independent variables, and the control treatments. The independent variable is the amount of oxygen in the discs. The dependent variable is the light, darkness, and the amount
Competition is always over the supply of a limited resource. There are two types of competition: intraspecific and interspecific. Intraspecific is competition between the same species. This is usually beneficial to the species as a whole because it results in the best fit organism. Interspecific is competition between different species and is known to be detrimental to both species. There are three principles that apply to competition. Competition exclusion principle is when two species live together and occupy the same niche and eventually one species will out compete the other and replace it in that environment. The second principle is niche overlap which means that when two species live together over a large area one species will replace the other in part of that area. The last principle, character displacement, is when two species live together and initially occupy the same niche they may evolve to become different over time in order to avoid competition. When more than one species occupy the same niche and are very similar it is common for one of them to become specialized in that area. For example if two birds are eating the same food one may develop a different beak over time in order to hunt for a different food.
The articles, “Animal Roles and Relationships” and “ Unusual Animal Friendships”, both state the unique relationships that animals have with each other. From reading both articles, a dog, that just had puppies could care for a litter of new kittens in numerous ways. Thanks to both articles, “Animal Roles and Relations” and “Unusual Animal Friendships”, I now know how the relationship between animals actually work. The articles states that the relations between animals are different according to the animals that are involved. Article, “Animal Roles and Relationships” states that every group member of a animal pack, has to play a certain role, of which things they would do to make sure everyone is taken care of. The article, “ Unusual Animal
Cats are a small mammal that is regularly domesticated to be a house pet. They are an animal with a short snout and retractile claws. Cats are similar to myself in my physical characteristics, my social habits and in my literary-related behaviors. The type of cat I am most similar to is the short-haired sable Burmese.
I am the only child in my family, so I often felt some kind of solitude. Finally, instead of a sibling, on my eleventh birthday I received a very special present from my lovely parents. It was a white cat with some black spots on its paws and near the neck. I proudly called him Tom as I was a huge fan of “Tom And Jerry” cartoons which attracted me to the TV every evening. I can’t find a word to describe that happy moments of my childhood spent playing with Tom. I built a small house for him from Lego pieces, forced him to stay in bed to watch cartoons together, and taught him how to play soccer along with some other tricks, and washing Tom in the bath was also a pleasure challenge for me. Now, I’m much older, but exciting love for cats didn’t disappear. Sometimes, walking down the streets in my town, when I saw poor homeless cats, I felt large regret to their hard lives. However, at the same time, I saw much more land animals were killed to become my food later, and my feelings weren’t alike. My love and compassion extended only on cats but not on a cow or a pig mostly because they never were so close to me as the cat was. Sadly, I am not the only representative of such problem when people care exclusively about the animals they love.
A final example of a commensal relationship is a titan triggerfish. It is often referred to as giant triggerfish because of its size ad belongs to the Animalia kingdom and the balistidae family. It has the ability to develop and generate feeding opportunities for smaller fish. It can move large rocks that are too big for the small fish to move by themselves.
Yes the hypothesis was supposed, which was "Germinating seed would take in more oxygen because they are actively going through cellular respond growing. This is shown in the data when looking at the Corrected Difference at 5 minutes germinating peas was at .05 and dry peas with beads was only .01, then looking at the data at the end at 20 minutes germinating peas were at .24 and dry peas and beads were at .04. The germinating were ahead of the dry peas with taking in more oxygen. The independent variable was the germination of the peas. The dependent variable was the amount of oxygen consumption. Germinating peas are growing and going through cellular respiration at a higher rate, this effects oxygen consumption because because the higher the
All over the world there are animals dying from national disasters and plants are dying from animals. So the predator - prey relationships have a big deal on the population on plants and animals. But with the predator - prey relationships both animals have a connection together because that animals and the plants can be controlled with a keystone species. The one that controls how the population of all the factors is the keystone species because the keystone species is the animal that keep everything in check with the population of the plants and animals. But if the keystone species die and can it affect the ecosystem strongly and a trophic cascade would happen. So living and Nonliving factors have a big effect on the population of the and
Our experiment had many different variables, the independent variables were Soy milk, Big Red, Chicken Broth, and Bleach water (1% bleach in water). These variables were chosen as they very outlandish choices, but not outlandish enough that we thought they would inhibit growth much. The Dependent variables for this experiment were plant height, color, wiltedness, and number of leaves. We would simply measure how tall the plants had grown (when we saw growth), we would look and see if it had a green coloration or another coloration,
Social interactions are the manner in which we socialize and react to other people. Social interaction has been around humanity since the beginning. It is so important that without it, settlements and groups wouldn’t have formed the way we know it today. It is the building block of society, people get together and design rules, institution and select officials to guide their way of living. It means interaction is social relationship among the individuals. It is a sort of action and reaction position among the people. It involves the acts that people do to others and the return the expect. Social interaction consists of many concepts which are: Exchange, competition, cooperation, conflict and coercion.