Title: Goals & Learning Objectives - chp 56
Course: BIO-182 RTZ > Section: week 12 - Species Interaction & Coevolution

GOALS and LEARNING OBJECTIVES (Chapter 56: Species Interactions & Coevolution)

GOALS:

- Understand the main classes of species interactions
- Distinguish between antagonistic, mutualistic, and other forms of interaction

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Provide examples of positive, negative, and neutral interactions between species.
2. Contrast predation, herbivory, and parasitism. Provide an example of each.
3. Provide examples of a mutualistic interaction. How do both species benefit?
4. Compare and contrast commensalism and amensalism. Give an example of each.
5. Describe 5 different defensive strategies of animals.
6. Describe three different defenses of plants and give an example of a coevolutionary arms race.
7. Explain the mutualistic relationships between plants and pollinators. How do plant and pollinator adaptations facilitate mutualism.
8. Provide examples of competitive interactions that embody interference competition and exploitation competition.
9. Explain how competitive exclusion and resource partitioning differ from one another.
10. Compare and contrast fundamental and realized niche.

KEY TERMS:

Amensalism, antagonistic interaction, aposematism, arms race, Batesian mimicry, character displacement, coevolution, commensalism, competition, competitive exclusion, crypsis, exploitation competition, fundamental niche, herbivory, host, interference competition, interspecific competition, intraspecific competition, Müllerian mimicry, mutualism, niche, parasitism, predation, prey, realized niche, resource partitioning, warning coloration