Question

• the atmospheric gas carbon dioxide, which is the main driver of global warming

• the spirochete bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease

• the SARS CoV-2 virus, the causative agent of COVID-19

Define biotic and abiotic environmental factors and classify each of the three bolded environmental factors in the bulleted list above to illustrate a biotic factor, an abiotic factor, and a factor considered to be somewhere in between.(50-word minimum response length)

Answer 1

Abiotic factor-CO2 (carbon dioxide)gas is non living but influence the environment as it is main driver global warmingso it is abiotic factor.

Biotic factor - spirochete bacterium ,Borrelia burgdorferi is a living organise that cases influence to other living organise as it cases lyme disease in humans so it is fit in biotic factor category.

Factor somewhat in between biotic and abiotic is SARsCoV2

Because it is non living outside the host body so it comes in abiotic but it become living and start replicating inside living host and cases covid19 which is category of biotic so due to its dual nature our side host and inside host they are categorised in between biotic .