BIOL 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pieris Rapae, Lignin, Invertebrate
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Biol230 topic 3 - why is the world green and blue. Use these questions to help focus your studying for topic. By taking a transect (tracing an imaginary line across the selected ecosystem), then counting the organisms that are in the quadrants following the transect. That data collected could then be extrapolated to the rest of the ecosystem. Have a pond where there is just salt marsh plants with no geese present and measure the rate of growth of the marsh plants in that pond. Heterotrophs also includes predators, but it also includes herbivores as well as decomposers. Heterotrophs in general consists herbivores, predators, and decomposers. Herbivores eat plants only while decomposers feed on what is already dead. Their food is similar in elemental composition to. They can easily break down food into simple. Why: design an experiment to test whether heterotrophs are more efficient when feeding on animals vs. plants.
