1st Period Biology Final

All types of DNA mutations cause serious problems.

• true

• false

Total mass of living matter at each trophic level.

• biomass

• biotic factor

• symbiosis

• biome

Any living factor in an organism's environment (food, predation, disease, etc).

• biotic factor

• niche

• food web

• autotroph

Organism that captures energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce its own food-- aka the producers.

• symbiosis

• herbivore

• autotroph

• population

Organism that cannot make its own food and gets its nutrients by feeding on other organisms.

• comunity

• mutualism

• carrying capacity

• heterotroph

Model that shows many interconnected food chains & pathways energy can flow through an ecosystem.

• biomass

• food chain

• food web

• omnivore

Close mutualistic, parasitic or commensal association between 2 or more species that live together.

• niche

• symbiosis

• community

• carnivore

Each step in a food chain or food web. Also each level in the energy pyramid.

• ecology

• habitat

• biodiversity

• trophic level

Any nonliving factor in an organism's environment (soil, water, etc).

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• mutualism

• food chain

Diagrammed family history used to study inheritance patterns through several generations.

• codominance

• carrier

• karyotype

• pedigree