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BIO 315 MART The learning interface
BIO 315 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com 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
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BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field
Study Paper (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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.
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BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises (UOP) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com 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) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com
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) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bio315mart.com 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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