BIOL 2300 MIDTERM #2 Exam 2025 Questions and Answers

BIOL 2300 MIDTERM #2 Exam 2025
Questions and Answers


Fecundity - --CORRECT ANSWER--number of offspring produced per

reproductive episode

Lifetime Reproductive Success - --CORRECT ANSWER--the number of

offspring produced by an individual in their lifetime

Fitness involves - --CORRECT ANSWER--offspring surviving to reproductive

age

Life History Strategy - --CORRECT ANSWER--set of choices and decisions

resulting in an individual's allocation to reproductive effort through its lifespan

Life History Traits - --CORRECT ANSWER--body size/growth, puberty age,

parity, fecundity, offspring size, amount of parental care, senescence

Parity - --CORRECT ANSWER--the number of reproductive episodes an

organism experiences

Semelparity - --CORRECT ANSWER--reproduction in which an organism

produces all of its offspring in a single event; also known as big-bang reproduction.




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, Iteroparity - --CORRECT ANSWER--A reproductive strategy that has organisms

breed multiple times in their lifetime (can be seasonal or continuous)

Senescence - --CORRECT ANSWER--the natural mortalic and fedundic decline

brought about by aging

r - selected - --CORRECT ANSWER--- semelparous

- unlimited resources

- early maturity

- small offspring

- low popn. growth

- r is at max

- reproduction > growth/survival

- SMALL SPREAD ON GRAPH

- DENSITY INDEPENDENT

K - selected - --CORRECT ANSWER--- iteroparity

- limited resources

- late maturity

- large offspring

- low popn. growth


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