Limiting+Factors+for+Organisms

** By McButt and BrutalFatallity **
 * Limiting Factors for Organisms **
 * Every hour, bacteria produce another of themselves using binary fission. If there are 2 times as many bacteria every hour, why aren’t we knee deep in bacteria by now? The answer is limiting factors. Limiting factors are interactions between organisms that are beneficial or harmful to both or one of the organisms. For example, predation is a limiting factor between two organisms in which one is the predator and one is the prey. It benefits the predator but harms the prey. **




 * There are dozens of limiting factors, including water availability, temperature, and shelter. Most limiting factors include at least 2 organisms reacting to or with eachother. Here are some examples: **
 * Competition- Fighting over a resource such as space, food or sunlight **
 * Commensalism- An association where one organism is benefitted while the other organism gains nothing. **
 * Consumer/Producer- A consumer takes in energy and a producer makes energy. **
 * Parasitism- Where one organism benefits from taking from another organism to harm it. **
 * Mutualism- An act where both organisms are benefited .**