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Biology Final   To measure the population of lake trout in a 250 hectare lake, 200 individuals were netted and marked with a fin clip, and then returned to the lake

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1. To measure the population of lake trout in a 250 hectare lake, 200 individuals were netted and marked with a fin clip, and then returned to the lake. The next week, the lake is netted again, and out of the 200 lake trout that are caught, 50 have fin clips. Using the capture-recapture estimate, the lake trout population size could be closest to which of the following?
2. Long-term studies of Belding's ground squirrels show that immigrants move nearly 2 km from where they are born and make up 1 to 8% of the males and 0.7 to 6% of the females in other populations. On an evolutionary scale, why is this significant?
3. Demography is the study of
4. Natural selection has led to the evolution of diverse natural history strategies, which have in common
5. Natural selection involves energetic trade-offs between
6. The three basic variables that make up the life history of an organism are
7. Which of the following is a conclusion that can be drawn from this graph?
8. Which of the following pairs of reproductive strategies is consistent with energetic trade-off and reproductive success?
9. As N approaches K for a certain population, which of the following is predicted by the logisitic equation?
10. A population of ground squirrels has an annual per capita birth rate of 0.06 and an annual per capita death rate of 0.02. Estimate the number of individuals added to (or lost from) a population of 1,000 individuals in one year.