Question

Which of the following are important biotic factors that can affect the structure and organization of biological communities?

Answer 1

Answer:

c. predation, competition, parasitism

Explanation:

The important and only biotic factors from the given choices that can affect the structure and organization of biological communities are predation, competition and parasitism.

These factors ensures that there are interaction between organisms of the same and different species and only occur in life.

Biotic factors are the living component of the ecosystem that dictates what happens therein.

• Predation is an interaction between two organisms in which the predator, bigger organism feeds on the prey, smaller organism.
• Competition occurs where two organism of the same or different species struggles for limited resources in the ecosystem.
• Parasitism is an interaction where one organism feeds on the another and it causes harm to it. The organism feeding on another is called the parasite. And the one it is dependent on is the host.

All of these are biotic factors.