Question

The flesh-eating bacteria, vibrio vulnificus, destroys healthy tissue. infectious agents such as this are best classified as what kind of environmental factor?

Answer 1

The possible answers are
1. Abiotic environmental
2.Biotic environmental
3.Genetic
4.Pathogenic

The correct answer is 2.
There are two groups of environmental factors, the abiotic factors like temperature and biotic factors that refer to the effects that living beings have on each other.
The flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus is a living organism affecting another organism by attacking its healthy flesh, therefore this effect is classified as a biotic environmental factor.