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#Question id: 12615
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Imagine that you are managing a large ranch. You know from historical accounts that wild sheep used to live there, but they have been extirpated. You decide to reintroduce them. After doing some research to determine what might be an appropriately sized founding population, you do so. You then watch the population increase for several gen- erations, and graph the number of individuals (vertical axis) against the number of generations (horizontal axis). The graph will appear as
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#Question id: 12616
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
In the logistic equation
is a measure of the population's intrinsic rate of increase. It is determined by which of the following?
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#Question id: 12617
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
In 2005, a country had a population of approximately 295,000,000 people. If the birth rate was 13 births for every 1,000 people, approximately how many births occurred in the United States in 2005?
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#Question id: 12618
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Exponential growth of a population is represented by dN/dt
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#Question id: 12619
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Logistic growth of a population is represented by dN/dt
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#Question id: 12620
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
As N approaches K for a certain population, which of the following is predicted by the logistic equation?