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13 Cards in this Set
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What kind of reproductive stategy do bacteria employ?
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rapid
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What kind of strategy do the giant land tortoises of the Galapagos Islands and sequoias of California use to explain their long life?
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slow growth
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Organisms that employ a slow reproduction usuallly require what kind of environment?
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stable environment
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What kind of shape does a population that grows until it reaches its carrying capacity called?
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What are the effects of density-independent factors as limiting factors?
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not influenced by population densities
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What is the carrying capacity of a particular species?
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maximum number of individual organisms that could be supported by a given environment indefinitely
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What do unrestricted populations of organisms experience?
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exponential growth
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Why to population growth tend to level off?
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the population reaches the carrying capacity of a particular environment
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What is the production of many offspring in a short period of time a characteristic of ?
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rapid life-history pattern
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What are some factors on the growth of a population?
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food, water, or shelter
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What could be an example of exponential growth?
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a population of bacteria that doubles its size every 20 minutes
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What shaped curve describes the tendency of a population to gorw without limit to its size?
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J
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What are the general characteristics of organisms that employ a strategy of rapid reproduction that prpoduces many offspring? Give two examples
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have a small body size, mature rapidly, repproduce early and have a short life span. Flies and mosquitoes are two examples.
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