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BIO 315 Entire Course (UOP)

• BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1
• BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2
• BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field
  Study Paper
• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1
• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2
• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3
• BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises
• BIO 315 Week 2 Environment, Resources, and
  Competition
• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 1
• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 2
• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 3
• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 4
• BIO 315 Week 3 Individual Assignment Yeast
  Culture Lab
• BIO 315 Week 3 Learning Team Exercises

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BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field
Study Paper (UOP)

• Resources Field Study by Beren Robinson in Ch. 5
  of Elements of EcologyWrite a 700- to 1,050-word
  paper explaining the important aspects of the
  study and how they relate to ecology and
  evolution.Describe original observations of
  researchers.Describe the study in
  detailResearch questions of study Hypotheses
  Variables in studyDiscuss research
  findings.Include a brief, general overview of
  how ecologists use evidence and observation to
  quantify results before going in to the specific
  findings of this case study.Discuss evolution
  and its relationship to natural selection.What
  role do they play in ecology?What role do they
  play specifically in the case study chosen?

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BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP)

• What is your personal definition of ecology? How
  do the definitions of ecology presented by
  Essentials of Ecology and the one proposed by
  Ernst Haeckel vary? Which of these previous
  definitions of ecology do you agree with and why?

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BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP)

• What is your personal definition of ecology? How
  do the definitions of ecology presented by
  Essentials of Ecology and the one proposed by
  Ernst Haeckel vary? Which of these previous
  definitions of ecology do you agree with and why?

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BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)

• What is intraspecific competition? What are some
  examples of how the limited quantity of resources
  affect intraspecific completion? How does
  intraspecific competition affect species
  distribution and their evolution?

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BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP)

• Define the terms fundamental niche and realized
  niche. How does competition relate to George
  Evelyn Hutchinsons concept of niches? How can
  niche differentiation or complementary
  experiments explain aspects of evolutionary
  theory?

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BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP)

• Describe the three main types of predator defined
  in ecology. How does an understanding of fitness,
  abundance, and foraging behavior help us
  understand predation? How does environmental
  patchiness or fragmentation affect predatorprey
  populations?

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BIO 315 Week 2 Environment, Resources, and
Competition (UOP)

• Resources University of Phoenix Materials
  Temperature and Precipitation, Intraspecific
  Competition, and Interspecific Competition
  located on your student websiteImagine you are
  an ecologist studying ecosystems. In this
  assignment, you are given a set of data to
  study.Review the Temperature and Precipitation
  data, Intraspecific Competition data, and
  Interspecific Competition data located on your
  student website.Analyze the data provided in
  three graphs.Environment, Resources, and
  Competition PresentationPrepare a 10- to
  15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentationthat
  answers the following questionsWhat are the
  major characteristics of the environment of the
  chosen ecosystem?

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BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises (UOP)

• Complete the followingAfter reading Ch. 1 of
  Essentials of Ecology, create an outline of the
  main interactions that happen between organisms,
  populations, and communities in an assigned
  ecosystem. Develop an outline and suggest
  additional interactions that might be
  important.Examine the importance and
  applicability of this weeks concepts to each
  team member and to society in general.Post your
  teams outline from this exercise via the
  Assignments link. Briefly describe how this
  activity applied to the weekly concepts.Post a
  150- to 200- word summary from your teams
  examination and discussion of the weekly concepts
  exercise via the Assignments link.

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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP)

• What are some ways ecologists define populations?
  What are some of the factors that regulate
  populations? What challenges do ecologists
  encounter when studying populations?

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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP)

• What is demographic stochasticity? Why are small
  populations more susceptible to extinction from
  demographic stochasticity than larger
  populations? Why is demographic stochasticity
  important to biologists?

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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP)

• What is primary and secondary production? What
  are the limiting factors on primary production in
  terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems? Why is it
  important for an ecologist to be able to
  understand the energy pathways through trophic
  levels?

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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP)

• What is a biogeochemical cycle? Describe how the
  hydrological cycle transports water through
  ecosystems. What are some examples of both benign
  and disruptive human contributions to
  biogeochemical cycles?

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BIO 315 Week 3 Individual Assignment Yeast
Culture Lab (UOP)

• Resources University of Phoenix Materials Lab
  Report Outline, Yeast Lab Worksheet, and Yeast
  Lab Spreadsheet located on your student
  websiteReview the Yeast Lab Worksheet. It
  contains images of four yeast samples that were
  observed at 0, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours.Count
  the number of yeast cultures observed at each
  interval.Record the data on the Yeast Lab
  Spreadsheet and analyze the graphs.Write a lab
  report of 1,050- to 1,400-words following the Lab
  Report Outline provided on your student website.
  Address all points listed in the outline.Format
  your lab report consistent with APA guidelines

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BIO 315 Week 3 Learning Team Exercises (UOP)

• Ecosystem StabilityComplete the
  followingIdentify producers and consumers in
  your native biome and answer the following
  questionsHow would removing a producer affect
  that biome?What if a consumer is removed?How
  are the results different?In what situation
  would an ecosystem be unaffected by the removal
  of producer or consumer?Examine the importance
  and applicability of this weeks concepts to each
  team member and to society in general.Post your
  teams responses from this exercise in a 150- to
  200-word summary via the Assignments link.
  Briefly describe how this activity applied to the
  weekly concepts.

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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP)

• Define the following terms biome, mosaic, and
  patch. What role does scale play in the study of
  ecology? Why are aquatic ecosystems classified
  differently than terrestrial biomes?

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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP)

• How does climate influence a biome? What are some
  of the factors that determine an areas biome?
  Why do ecologists study the transitional zones
  between biomes?

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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP)

• What is the difference between species richness
  and diversity? What are some of the challenges in
  determining the species richness of a community?
  How can these challenges be overcome?

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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP)

• How do alien species affect ecosystems? How might
  alien plants and animals influence evolutionary
  differentiation? Why is understanding diversity
  and species richness so challenging for
  ecologists?

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BIO 315 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Ecosystem
WebQuest and Presentation (UOP)

• Resource Ecosystem WebQuest located on your
  student websiteSelect an ecosystem to examine.
  Obtain faculty approval for your
  ecosystem.Navigate the Ecosystem WebQuest and
  answer the questions located within it.Prepare a
  9- to 10- slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation describing your teams selected
  ecosystem and Ecosystem WebQuest. Answer all of
  the questions within the WebQuest.Present the
  Ecosystem WebQuest and Presentation.

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BIO 315 Week 5 Assignment Estuary Project Paper
(UOP)

• Resource The San Francisco Estuary Project
  websiteRead the Introduction to the San
  Francisco Estuary Project Comprehensive
  Conservation and Management Plan found on the San
  Francisco Estuary Projects (SFEP) website at
  http//sfep.abag.ca.govSelect the Publications
  link on the left-hand side of the site.Select
  the Complete CCMP link under the heading
  Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan
  (CCMP) revised 2007.Choose one of the following
  topics to examine more closely.Wetlands
  Management Water Use Pollution Prevention and
  Reduction Dredging and Waterway Modification
  Land Use Management

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BIO 315 Week 5 Learning Team Exercises (UOP)

• Case Study Review and DiscussionComplete the
  followingRead the field study in Ch. 20 of
  Elements of Ecology and discuss the questions at
  the end.Discuss any concept that a team member
  is having a difficult time understanding.Examine
  the importance and applicability of this weeks
  concepts to each team member and to society in
  general.Post your teams solutions from this
  exercise as a 150- to 200-word summary via the
  Assignments link. Briefly describe how this
  activity applied to the weekly concepts.

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