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12 years ago
Question 39 of 60    1.667 Points
Belle is studying a population of moose on an island and the shape of the population growth curve is sigmoid, with population size plotted on the vertical axis and time plotted on the horizontal axis. Likely what accounts for the flattening of the curve at the top?
   A. Shortage of resources, raising the death rate and lowering the birth rate.    
   B. Exponential growth.    
   C. Density suddenly lowered.    
   D. Aging of animals so they no longer reproduce.    
   E. Allelopathy.
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12 years ago
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A. Shortage of resources, raising the death rate and lowering the birth rate.
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Density suddenly lowered Neutral Face
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12 years ago
I think the answer is that the aging population is no longer reproducing, as there is no change in number after a certain time.
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