Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337408332
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 45, Problem 6SQ
Lizards that eat flies they catch on the ground and birds that catch and eat flies in the air are engaged in ______ competition.
- a. exploitative
- b. interference
- c. intraspecific
- d. interspecific
- e. both a and d
- f. both b and c
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