The Change in Size of a Given Population of Organisms

question 9

Multiple Choice

The change in size of a given population of organisms may have a direct impact on humans.The 1993 outbreak of hantavirus in the southwestern United States was partly due to a(n)

• A) tightly linked cycle of human and hantavirus populations.
• B) increase in the deer mouse population size.
• C) decline in the desert salamander population, the normal hantavirus host.
• D) increase in human population size.

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