Question

Factors that oppose biotic potential characterize environmental resistance. (State whether the following statement is true or false.)
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

In environmental resistance, the sum of the environmental factors such as drought, mineral deficiencies, and competition that tend to restrict the biotic potential of an organism or kind of organism and it impose a limit on numerical increase.

Complete answer:
The environmental resistance factors are all the factors or things that keep a population of the organisms from endlessly increasing i.e. keep a check on it. . They reduce the chances for reproduction, affect the health of organisms/individuals, and raise the death rate in the population.

The environmental resistance factors include the factors that are biotic and abiotic.
• The biotic factors are things like a predation, a parasitism, lack of food, competition with other organisms and disease.
• Abiotic factors include factors like drought, fire, temperature, and even the wrong amount of sunlight could affect it.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Additional information:
The resistance factor is the earlier term used to refer to the plasmid that confers certain bacteria the ability to resist the antibacterial action of some antibiotics. In the context of ecological stability, the resistance is the property of communities or the populations to remain "essentially unchanged" when subject to disturbance.The ability of an ecosystem to adapt to any kind of a change that occurs makes it resistant to the disturbances.

Note: The environment is the circumstances, objects, or the conditions by which one is surrounded. The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors such as climate, soil, and living things that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.