NEET AIPMT SOLVED PAPER SCREENING 2007

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                    The population of an insect species shows an explosive increase in numbers during rainy season followed by its disappearance at the end of the season. What does this show?                                          

    A)                  S-shaped or sigmoid growth of this insect

    B)                  The food plants mature and die at the end of the rainy season

    C)                  Its population growth curve is of J-type

    D)                  The population of its predators increases enormously

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

                    Its population growth curve is J-shaped in which density increases rapidly in exponential fashion and then stops abruptly as environmental resistance or another limiting factor becomes effective more or less suddenly.


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