BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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Author: STARR
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Chapter 41, Problem 3SA
Lizards that eat flies they capture on the ground and birds that eat flies they catch in the air are engaged in _______ competition.
| a. exploitative | b. interference |
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BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
Ch. 41 - The type of place where a species typically lives...Ch. 41 - Which cannot be a symbiosis? a. mutualism c....Ch. 41 - Lizards that eat flies they capture on the ground...Ch. 41 - ________ can lead to resource partitioning. a....Ch. 41 - Prob. 5SACh. 41 - Prob. 6SACh. 41 - Prob. 7SACh. 41 - By the currently favored hypothesis, species...Ch. 41 - Growth of a forest in an abandoned corn field is...Ch. 41 - Prob. 10SA
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