FW104 Exam 1 Review

Wildlife management and conservation is relatively simple.

It is best to harvest a population when population size stays constant over time.

Sand grouse feathers (class video) have adapted over time to provide them with which habitat component?

GACT are the 4 bases that make up the DNA alphabet.

What is the correct order of classification?

The realized niche is smaller than the fundamental niche.

Density-independent factors cause an increase in mortalities or reduced birth rates when population density increases.

Which of the following activities has the highest annual economic impact in Colorado?

Ecosystem services are functions provided by ecosystems that benefit animals.

Mutation is the original source of genetic variation.

Energy cycles through an ecosystem.

Invertebrates are considered wildlife in every state and country.

What contributes to genetic variation in populations?

Because helicopters are used, CPW is able to manually count all of the mule deer in Colorado each year.

Recruitment is the number of new idividuals that reach breeding age.

Which interaction results in a positive feedback loop?

In smaller populations, there is a greater risk of losing genetic variation.

Alleles are alternative forms of a gene that occupy the same relative position on a chromosome.

Animals overlapping in diet have the same niche.

According to the scientific method video, the first step to the scientific method is observation.

The study of interrelationships among living systems, and their environments is ___

Heterozygous traits have identical alleles from each parent (AA or aa).

Harmful agal blooms can occur in bodies of water when the _____ and _____ cycles are disrupted.

What imminent threat led CPW to collect the 58 cutthroat trout that they genetically tested?

Natural selection is the major driving force of evolution.

Populations are a group of interacting individuals of the same species living in a given area at a given time.

____is the sustained use of natural resources.

Over time, acacia plants and ants have developed a symbiotic relationship. This is an example of____.

Which species have K-selected life history strategies?

Population abundance stays the same over time.

The ______of a species is defined as their biology, ecology, habits, and other characteristics.

__Law of tolerance states that an organisms success relies on access of many factors that may reach its tolerance limits

____are an organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.