BIO SCI E151 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bifurcation Diagram, Functional Response, Mutation Rate
1 Jul 2016
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Clearly define the basic reproductive ratio of a pathogen. Describe why this is an important concept and provide some practical applications. Describe different growth patterns that can be observed in single-species growth models. Define bifurcation and explain what a bifurcation diagram is. Compare and contrast the concepts of competition and apparent competition. Describe why the functional response of a predator is important for predator-prey models. What is kin selection (a) you help your relative to reproduce and therefore you promote the spread of your own genes into the next generation. What are memes? (a) ideas that can spread among individual in a way that is similar to an infection. It means that the drug resistant strains all share the characteristic of having a particular resistance mutation. However, the rest of the genome might differ among the members of this strain due to the high mutation rate of the virus.
