Use the Table to Answer the Following Question

question 56

Multiple Choice

Use the table to answer the following question.
Life Table for Zootoca vivipara in the Netherlands

Data are from Strijbosch and Creemers, 1988.
Removing which of the following age-groups from the population would result in the largest decrease in population growth of Z. vivipara?

• A) age-group 1
• B) age-group 2
• C) age-group 3
• D) age-group 4

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Definitions:

Hallucinations

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Psychological Disorder

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Flat Affect

A symptom of schizophrenia in which the person shows almost no emotion at all.