BIO 101 Lab 3 Ecology of Organisms SUMMER 2024

Lab Report Format Expectations Utilize college level grammar and professional formatting when completing this worksheet. Pre-Lab Questions 1. Would you expect endangered species to be more frequently generalists or specialists? Explain your answer. I would say that endangered species would be more of a Specialists because as we know a specialist are adapted to a specific food and environment and can go extinct if either their food source or habitat is destroyed. While a generalist can survive on any type of food and environment. 2. How does temperature affect water availability in an ecosystem? It effects the water availability in an ecosystem because if the temperature is to HIGH. it evaporates causing the water to dry. However, if the temperature is low then there is enough water.      EXPERIMENT 1: EFFECTS OF pH ON RADISH SEED GERMINATION Introduction Questions 1. What is the objective of this experiment? To see which chemical will help thrive the radish seed, helping us see how it germinates in each enviroment. 2. Record your hypothesis from Step 6 here: I predict that the radish seeds would demonstrate the most seed growth with water because the ph balance is 6. Radish seeds need a ph blance between 5.2 and 6.8 to grow, which makes acetic acid ph level 4 too low and sodium bicarbonate ph level 7