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We are mostly obliged to estimate population sizes indirectly,withoutactuallycountingthemorseeingthem.Thetigercensus in our national parks and tige... |
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other two factors assuming importance only under special conditions. For instance, if a new habitat is just being colonised, immigration may contri... |
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For calculating it, you need to know the birth rates and death rates. The above equation describes the exponential or geometric growth pattern of a... |
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first square and proceeded to fill the other squares following minister’s suggested procedure, but by the time he covered half the chess board, the... |
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behaviour of chromosomes was parallel to the behaviour of genes and used chromosome movement (Figure 4.8) to explain Mendel’s laws (Table 4.3). Rec... |
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more realistic one. Gather from Government Census data the population figures for India for the last 100 years, plot them and check which growth pa... |
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species. They could be beneficial, detrimental or neutral (neither harm nor benefit) to one of the species or both. Assigning a ‘+’ sign for benefi... |
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invasive and start spreading fast because the invaded land does not have its natural predators. The prickly pear cactus introduced into Australia i... |
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the most common morphological means of defence. Many plants produce and store chemicals that make the herbivore sick when they are eaten, inhibit f... |
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conclusive. Strong and persuasive circumstantial evidence does exist however in some cases. The Abingdon tortoise in Galapagos Islands became extin... |
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parasites have evolved to be host-specific (they can parasitise only a single species of host) in such a way that both host and the parasite tend t... |
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cells, etc.). The life cycles of endoparasites are more complex because of their extreme specialisation. Their morphological and anatomical feature... |
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is pollinated by wasp; (b) Wasp laying eggs in a fig fruit (v) Mutualism: Thisinteractionconfersbenefitsonboththeinteracting species. Lichens repre... |
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deceit’ to get pollination done by a species of bee. One petal of its flower bears an uncanny resemblance to the female of the bee in size, colour ... |
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through births and immigration and decline through deaths and emigration. When resources are unlimited, the growth is usually exponential but when ... |
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terms and give one example for each: (a) Commensalism (b) Parasitism (c) Camouflage (d) Mutualism (e) Interspecific competition 8. With the help of... |
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CHAPTER 12 ECOSYSTEM 12.1 Ecosystem–Structure andFunction An ecosystem can be visualised as a functional unit of 12.2. Productivity nature,whereliv... |
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occupying different levels is called stratification. For example, trees occupy top verticalstrataorlayerofaforest,shrubsthesecondandherbsandgrasses... |
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(kcal m ). The rate of biomass production is called productivity. –2 –1 – –1 It is expressed in terms of gm yr or (kcal m ) yr to compare the produ... |
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raw material for decomposition. The important steps in the process of decomposition are fragmentation, leaching, catabolism, humification and miner... |
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energy captured by plants flows through different organisms of an ecosystem.Allorganismsaredependentfortheirfoodonproducers,either directly or indi... |
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A simple grazing food chain (GFC) is depicted below: Grass Goat Man (Producer) (Primary Consumer) (Secondary consumer) Reprint 2026-27 BIOLOGY The ... |
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when energy flows from a particular trophic level to the next trophic level, some energy is always lost as heat at each step. Each bar in the energ... |
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involves three processes, namely fragmentation of detritus, leaching and catabolism. Energy flow is unidirectional. First, plants capture solar ene... |
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of an ecosystem. 8. Define ecological pyramids and describe with examples, pyramids of number and biomass. 9. What is primary productivity? Give br... |
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