BIO 115 Ecology

NCE1 levelSciences16 topics

BIO 115 covers 16 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Objectives;
Ecological cycles (carbon, nitrogen, water and oxygen)
Basic terms and concepts of ecology - autecology, syneacology, environment, habitat, niche,
Population Studies
Terminology in population studies (species, population, community,
Methods of assessing the size of population;
Population growth and population growth curves
Factors affecting size of populations. Reference should also be made to
Plant Succession
Primary and Secondary succession
Processes involved in plant succession,
Plant succession in selected habitats. Consequences of population changes on the
Ecosystem.
Biotic Interactions:
Symbiosis, commensalisms, Predation, parasitism, competition, saprophytism,
NCE I SECOND SEMESTER

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Objectives;

The objectives of ecology explain what the discipline seeks to achieve: understanding how organisms relate with one another and with their environment, explaining distribution and abundance, and applying that knowledge to solve environmental problems.

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Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
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An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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