Intraspecific Competition and Radishes

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I measured my radishes and Hammerhead123's radishes. The average height of my radishes were 5cm and the leaf length was 8cm, Hammerheads123's radishes were 2cm and his leaf length was also 2cm.

My radishes are 2.5 times taller than his. Also my longest leaf is 4 times bigger than his.

Term of the week: Intraspecific Competition

Hammerhead123's radishes are smaller than my radishes because his radishes are close together because he did not thin his radishes right away. His radishes showed intraspecific competition, which means members of the same species are competing for food,water,light,space and nutrients. Click on the link above to learn more about intraspecific competition.

The opposite of intraspecific competition is INTERspecific competition. That is when two different species are competing for the same resource, like a carrot and a radish.