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Mbio Module 8
Question | Answer |
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Ecology | The study of the relationship between an organism and its environment |
Abiotic | The nonliving part of an environment |
Biotic | The living part of an environment |
Carrying capacity | The largest population size that can be supported by a specific area with its available resources |
Limiting resources | A factor required for a population to grow, but present in small quantities in an ecosystem. |
Productivity | The rate of photosynthesis carried on in an ecosystem |
Carbon fixation | The converting of inorganic carbon into useful organic carbon substances |
Nitrogen fixation | The converting of gaseous nitrogen into useful organic nitrogen substances. |
Benthic | Describing organisms that live on the ocean bottom |
Pelagic | Describing organisms that live in the water column away from the ocean bottom. |