Topic: Semelparity and Iteroparity

question 23

Multiple Choice

Topic: semelparity and iteroparity
Difficulty: medium
A mature female sockeye salmon swims up to 5000 km from her Pacific Ocean feeding ground to the mouth of a coastal river in British Columbia and then another 1000 km upstream to her spawning ground. Once there, she lays thousands of eggs in her single reproductive event and promptly dies. The salmon's reproductive life history is

• A) semelparous.
• B) iteroparous.
• C) annual.
• D) perennial.

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