If Having Large Numbers of Offspring Results in High Fitness

question 12

Multiple Choice

If having large numbers of offspring results in high fitness, why don't all females have very large numbers of offspring?

• A)All the eggs a female will have in her lifetime are developed before she reaches reproductive age.
• B)Females would die before they could raise all of the offspring they could produce.
• C)They are limited by the amount of energy they can devote to reproduction in any one season.
• D)Females are limited by the number of males they mate with in a single season.

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