Gujarati
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11.Organisms and Populations
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The population of an insect species shows an explosive increase in numbers during rainy season followed by its disappearance at the end of the season. What does this show?

A

$S-$shaped or sigmoid growth of this insect

B

The food plants mature and die at the end of rainy season

C

Its population growth curve is of $J-$type

D

The population of its predators increases enormously

Solution

Its population growth curve is $J-$shaped in which density increases rapidly in exponential fashion and then stops abruptly as environmental resistance or another limiting factor becomes effective more or less suddenly.

Standard 12
Biology

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