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BIO 315 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1 BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2 BIO 315 Week 1 Individual Assignment Beren Robinson Field Study Paper BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1 BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2 BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3

BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field Study Paper (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Resources: Field Study by Beren Robinson in Ch. 5 of Elements of Ecology Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper explaining the important aspects of the study and how they relate to ecology and evolution. Describe original observations of researchers. Describe the study in detail:

BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is your personal definition of ecology? How do the definitions of ecology presented by Essentials of Ecology and the one proposed by Ernst Haeckel vary? Which of these previous definitions of ecology do you agree with and why?

BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is the difference between evolution and natural selection? What factors make the Galapagos Islands such a fertile ground for observing evolution and natural selection?

  BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is intraspecific competition? What are some examples of how the limited quantity of resources affect intraspecific completion? How does intraspecific competition affect species distribution and their evolution

BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Define the terms fundamental niche and realized niche. How does competition relate to George Evelyn Hutchinson’s concept of niches? How can niche differentiation or complementary experiments explain aspects of evolutionary theory?

BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Describe the three main types of predator defined in ecology. How does an understanding of fitness, abundance, and foraging behavior help us understand predation? How does environmental patchiness or fragmentation affect predator–prey populations?

BIO 315 Week 2 Environment and Resources FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Write an 750- to 1,050-word, two-part paper discussing plant and animal adaptations. Part 1 ·         Choose one plant and one

BIO 315 Week 2 Environment, Resources, and Competition (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Resources: University of Phoenix Materials: Temperature and Precipitation, Intraspecific Competition, and Interspecific Competition located on your student website

  BIO 315 Week 2 Intraspecific Competition and Interspecific Competition Presentation FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Resources: University of Phoenix Materials: Intraspecific Competition, and Interspecific Competition Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that includes the following:

BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Complete the following: After reading Ch. 1 of Essentials of Ecology, create an outline of the main interactions that happen between organisms, populations, and communities

BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What are some ways ecologists define populations? What are some of the factors that regulate populations? What challenges do ecologists encounter when studying populations?

BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is demographic stochasticity? Why are small populations more susceptible to extinction from demographic stochasticity than larger populations? Why is demographic stochasticity important to biologists?

BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is primary and secondary production? What are the limiting factors on primary production in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems? Why is it important for an ecologist to be able to understand the energy pathways through trophic levels?

BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is a biogeochemical cycle? Describe how the hydrological cycle transports water through ecosystems. What are some examples of both benign and disruptive human contributions to biogeochemical cycles?

BIO 315 Week 3 Individual Assignment Yeast Culture Lab (2 Paper)   BIO 315 Week 3 Individual Assignment Yeast Culture Lab (2 Paper) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com This Tutorial contains 2 Papers Outline, Yeast Lab Worksheet, and Yeast Lab Spreadsheet located on your student website Review the Yeast Lab Worksheet. It contains images of four yeast samples that were observed at 0, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours.

BIO 315 Week 3 Learning Team Exercises (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Ecosystem Stability ·Complete the following: Identify producers and consumers in your native biome and answer the following questions: ·How would removing a producer affect that biome?

  BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Define the following terms: biome, mosaic, and patch. What role does scale play in the study of ecology? Why are aquatic ecosystems classified differently than terrestrial biomes?

BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com How does climate influence a biome? What are some of the factors that determine an area’s biome? Why do ecologists study the transitional zones between biomes?

BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com What is the difference between species richness and diversity? What are some of the challenges in determining the species richness of a community? How can these challenges be overcome?

BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com How do alien species affect ecosystems? How might alien plants and animals influence evolutionary differentiation? Why is understanding diversity and species richness so challenging for ecologists?

BIO 315 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Ecosystem WebQuest and Presentation (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Resource: Ecosystem WebQuest located on your student website Select an ecosystem to examine. Obtain faculty approval for your ecosystem.

BIO 315 Week 5 Concept Brochure FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Resource: Tri-Fold Pamphlet Guide Choose one objective from the class, and create a brochure demonstrating the concepts in this objective. Imagine you are creating a brochure for a futu

BIO 315 Week 5 Learning Team Exercises (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Case Study Review and Discussion Complete the following: Read the field study in Ch. 20 of Elements of Ecology and discuss the questions at the end.

BIO 315 Week 5 San Francisco Estuary Project FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com Resource: The San Francisco Estuary Project website Read the Introduction to the San Francisco Estuary Project Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan found on the San Francisco Estuary Project's (SFEP) website athttp://sfep.abag.ca.gov

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