Imagine That You Are Managing a Large Game Ranch

question 25

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are managing a large game ranch. You know from historical accounts that a species of deer used to live there, but they have been extirpated. You decide to reintroduce them. After doing some research to determine what might be an appropriately sized founding population, you do so. You then watch the population increase for several generations, and graph the number of individuals (vertical axis) against the number of generations (horizontal axis) . The graph will likely appear as

• A) a diagonal line, getting higher with each generation.
• B) an "S," increasing with each generation.
• C) an upside-down "U."
• D) a "J," increasing with each generation.
• E) an "S" that ends with a vertical line.

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