An Organism's Biotic Potential Is the Maximum Number of Offspring

question 48

Multiple Choice

An organism's biotic potential is the maximum number of offspring that _________.

• A) survive to adulthood
• B) Its habitat can support
• C) It produces at one time
• D) It actually produces over its lifetime

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Definitions:

COV

Coefficient of Variation, a standardized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution.

Bivariate Distribution

A probability distribution describing two random variables and how their probabilities are distributed over different ranges of values.

Variance

A statistical measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how far each number in the set is from the mean.

Covariance

A measure that indicates the extent to which two variables change together, indicating the direction of their linear relationship.