Essay

1. What do you think? What are the advantages and the disadvantages of asexual reproduction
and sexual reproduction? Share your thoughts, opinions and feelings.
2. Give five examples of asexual reproduction in organisms (animal or plant)

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Suppose that planktons are small autotrophs that absorb energy from the sun. The shrimp eats
the plankton. The tuna eats the shrimp. The shark eats the tuna. Which of these is the primary
consumer? a. plankton c. shrimp b. shark d. tuna
2. Which of the following is characteristic of predation?
a. One organism kills and consumes another.
b. One organism lives in or on another and benefits.
c. Two organisms live together and neither is harmed.

d. Two organisms nourish each other; both benefit. e. Two organisms feed side by side from
the same food.

3. In a food pyramid, the amount of energy that any level of organism receives decreases
a. up the pyramid c. down the pyramid
b. in all levels d. across the pyramid

4. Which of these is a consumer-producer relationship?

a. birds eating beetles c. hawks eating rabbits

b. snakes eating frogs d. caterpillars eating tomatoes

5. The relationship in which one organism is helped and the other is harmed is known as

a. commensalisms b. parasitism c. mutualism d. symbiosis

6. All of the following are abiotic factors EXCEPT:

a. air b. animals c. soil d. sunlight

7. The level of the food chain which contains the most energy are the:

a. decomposers b. herbivores c. omnivores d. producers

Label each of the following as describing asexual reproduction (A) or sexual reproduction (S).

___ 1. Budding is an example of this type of reproduction.

___ 2. Gametes are produced by the same or different individuals.

___ 3. Offspring has a different combination of genes than either parent.

___ 4. It produces an offspring that may be better adapted to a new environment.

___ 5. Regeneration is an example of this type of reproduction.

___ 6. Usually, a large number of offsprings are produced.

___ 7. Strawberry plants grown from the nodes of stolons

___ 8. Potato plants grown from the eyes of a potato

___ 9. Gametes of gumamela flower fuse

___10. Ornamental plants grown from stem cuttings

Trophic Interactions

1. Herbivory
2. One member kills (predator) and utilizes the
other member (prey)
3. One member benefits (parasites) while the other
is harmed (host)
4. One member benefits while the other is not
harmed
5. Two or more species compete for a limited
resource.
6. Members are both benefited from the interaction