Trent University BIOL 2260 Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
ecology scientific study between organisms and environment
features of science ability to make predictions, uncertainty, probabilistic conclusions, skepticism,
falsifiable hypotheses
karl popper who said: testing a hypothesis means attempting to falsify that hypothesis
populationist, typological the ________ thinking of Darwin replaced the _____ thinking of Aristotle
demography study of rates of birth & death, age & sex structure and distribution
population a group of potentially interbreeding individuals inhabiting a specific area
arbitrary or natural spatial bounds can be...
density the number of individuals per unit area; ecological or crude
the area is known & organisms are immobile quadratic sample requirements
lincoln-peterson index N=M*n/m
accuracy how close an estimate is to the true value
precision how close repeated estimates are to each other
assumptions of mark-recapture equal probability of captured, emigrate and die at same rate, marking does not
effect probability of recapture, no immigration or reproduction between marking
and resighting, and no marks are lost
confidence interval we use _______ to determine the precision of mark-recapture
random, clumped, regular 3 forms of distribution
birth, death, immigration and emigration the 4 process that affect population size
open population expression N(t-1)=N(t)+B+I-D-E
closed population expression N(t-1)=N(t)+B-D
difference in population size at two times growth increment refers to the...
birth, death age governs the likelihood of _____ and ____
Questions and CORRECT Answers
ecology scientific study between organisms and environment
features of science ability to make predictions, uncertainty, probabilistic conclusions, skepticism,
falsifiable hypotheses
karl popper who said: testing a hypothesis means attempting to falsify that hypothesis
populationist, typological the ________ thinking of Darwin replaced the _____ thinking of Aristotle
demography study of rates of birth & death, age & sex structure and distribution
population a group of potentially interbreeding individuals inhabiting a specific area
arbitrary or natural spatial bounds can be...
density the number of individuals per unit area; ecological or crude
the area is known & organisms are immobile quadratic sample requirements
lincoln-peterson index N=M*n/m
accuracy how close an estimate is to the true value
precision how close repeated estimates are to each other
assumptions of mark-recapture equal probability of captured, emigrate and die at same rate, marking does not
effect probability of recapture, no immigration or reproduction between marking
and resighting, and no marks are lost
confidence interval we use _______ to determine the precision of mark-recapture
random, clumped, regular 3 forms of distribution
birth, death, immigration and emigration the 4 process that affect population size
open population expression N(t-1)=N(t)+B+I-D-E
closed population expression N(t-1)=N(t)+B-D
difference in population size at two times growth increment refers to the...
birth, death age governs the likelihood of _____ and ____
