Bio 220 Final Exam 2023/2024 with 100% correct answers

Ecology - correct answer Study of organisms and how they interact with their organic and inorganic environment; strives to understand distribution and abundance of organisms. Examples of what ecology is and isn't - correct answer Is: -Succession -Climate Change -Darwin's Finches -Natural Selection -Thermodynamics -Optimal Foraging -Fitness Isn't: -"Tree hugging" Yes and No: -Saving the whales -Going green -Wildfire -Jurassic Period -DNA History of ecology - correct answer Tribes and the establishment of agriculture first increased the need to learn about the ecology of plants and animals. Then the idea of ecological harmony came about through the Greeks understanding of nature. By the seventeenth century, population ecology became a main focus and still is today. Origins of ecology (1960s) - correct answer Oikos= home or dwelling Ology= study of Levels of organization - correct answer -Biosphere -Ecosystem= Florida Coast -Community= All organisms on the Florida Coast -Population= Group of brown pelican (usually where ecology ends) -Or