Of the choices below, which best describes the effect predation has on the predator/prey organisms involved in the relationship?
Of the choices below, which best describes the effect predation has on the predator/prey organisms involved in the relationship? A. harmed ... harmed
B. benefit ... no effect
C. benefit ... harmed
D. benefit ... benefit
E. no effect ... benefit
Predation is a type of interaction between two individuals in which one individual gets harmed which is called prey and another organism who is predator gets benefitted.
In predation, the predator kills its prey and consume it to survive. For example, Lion is a predator and deer is the prey so during predation lion kills the deer and consume it so here lions get benefited by consuming deer and deer is harmed as it lost its life. So the correct answer is C. benefit ... harmed.
Since the question states that they want to determine the population of the desert mice. You get the direct answer from just using context clues. Since population means one species in a certain area, it means that this method will work if the mice stay in the same area.
