Davis’s U-tube experiment- Exchange of bacterial genes clearly required direct contact in conjugation.

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Outcomes of Competition- 

Reduction in population sizes

Change in space use or activity 

Competitive exclusion

Character displacement

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Competition as a negative interaction between two species that depend on the same limiting resource to survive, grow, and reproduce.

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Intraspecific competition - Competition among individuals of the same species. 

Interspecific competition - Competition among individuals of different species

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Liebig’s law of the minimum Law stating that a population increases until the supply of the most limiting resource prevents it from increasing further. 

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Leibig’s law of the minimum assumes that each resource has an independent effect on the growth of a population.In other words, it assumes that if a given resource limits the growth of individuals and populations, increasing the availability of other resources will not improve such growth.