NEETZoologyOrganisms and Populations
What is the primary concern of ecology?
Options
- AStudying individual organisms
- BStudying populations only
- CStudying the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their abiotic environment
- DStudying the abiotic environment alone
Correct answer
C. Studying the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their abiotic environment
Step-by-step solution
Ecology is a subject which studies the interactions among organisms and between the organism and its physical (abiotic) environment . Ecology is basically concerned with four levels of biological organization – organisms, populations, communities and biomes. All the cormorants in a wetland, rats in an abandoned dwelling, teakwood trees in a forest tract, bacteria in a culture plate and lotus plants in a pond, are some examples of a population. In earlier chapters you have learnt that although an individual organism