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Organisms and Populations · Question 84

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1

Two opposite forces operate in the growth and development of every population. One of them relates to the ability to reproduce at a given rate. The force opposing it is called:

  1. Biotic potential
  2. Environmental resistance
  3. Morbidity
  4. Fecundity

Answer

(2) Environmental resistance

Solution

The inherent ability of a population to reproduce and increase at its maximum rate (intrinsic rate of natural increase, r) is called biotic potential.

As per NCERT, resources are limited in nature, so this growth is checked by limiting factors such as food, space, predators and disease; the sum of these checks is environmental resistance.

∴ Environmental resistance opposes the biotic potential and leads to logistic (sigmoid) growth up to the carrying capacity K.

Answer: (2)

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  1. Ectoparasitism
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  3. Endoparasitism
  4. Symbiotic relationship
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  1. Sigmoid
  2. Hyperbolic
  3. Ascending straight line
  4. Descending straight line
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  1. Lag, log, stationary, decline phase
  2. Lag, log, decline, stationary phase
  3. Stationary, lag, log, decline phase
  4. Decline, lag, log phase, stationary
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  1. Biotic potential
  2. Birth rate
  3. Carrying capacity
  4. Fertility
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  1. offence
  2. concealment
  3. defence
  4. both (2) and (3)
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  1. Cooperation
  2. Co-evolution
  3. Mutualism
  4. Commensalism
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  1. Dollo's rule
  2. Weismann's theory
  3. Allen's law
  4. Gause's hypothesis
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