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Ecology 211
Selection, competition, and growth models
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
12/08/2012

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What is ecology?
Definition
The study of all the complex interrelationships referred to by Darwin as the conditions of the struggle for existence.
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Scientific Method
Definition

Quantitative

  • Info gathering
  • Question
  • Hypothesis
  • Predictions
  • Test
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Common Garden Study
Definition
A study controlling the environment to see if there is a variation in phenotype or genotype. Forces VE to zero and is there still VP?
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Variation Equation
Definition

VP = VG + VE

       phenotype = genotype + environment                        

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Transplant Study
Definition
Switching the environment of hatchlings.
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Molecular study
Definition
Actually looking and comparing the genotype.
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