The Competitive Exclusion Principle States That Two Organisms Cannot Coexist

question 41

Multiple Choice

The competitive exclusion principle states that two organisms cannot coexist indefinitely when they

• A) live in the same habitat.
• B) are similar species.
• C) are limited by the same resources.
• D) consume the same prey.

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Definitions:

Trials

In probability, the term refers to the execution of an experiment or the number of times an experiment is run.

Poisson Distribution

A statistical distribution showing the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

Discrete Probability Distribution

A mathematical function that represents the probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes for a discrete random variable.

Skewed To The Right

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that most of the data are concentrated to the left.