MICROBIOLOGY FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
AHEAD SUCCESS STRATEGY
●● Parasitism
Answer: A relationship between two organisms of different species
where one benefits and the other is harmed. The host is harmed.
●● Commensalism
Answer: A relationship between two organisms of different species
where one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited
●● competition
Answer: A relationship were two species are competing for the same
resources
●● Predation
Answer: Interaction between two organisms of different species in
which one organism, called the predator, captures and feeds on parts or
all of another organism, called the prey.
●● limiting factor
, Answer: factor that causes the growth of a population to decrease
●● abiotic factors
Answer: nonliving parts of an ecosystem like pollution, weather
●● biotic factors
Answer: living parts of an ecosystem like predators, food
●● independent variable
Answer: the variable that is manipulated, or changed, in an experiment
●● dependent variable
Answer: The measurable outcome or response from the research.
●● control variable
Answer: A variable that is kept constant or the same.
●● Theory of Evolution
Answer: states that species changes over time to adapt to changes in the
environment.
●● physical weathering