Homework Help: Biology

Posted by Ashley on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 9:45pm.

Please help me answer this question for my ecology class.
Consider the following three populations. Population A has a type-1 survivorship curve, population B has a type-2 survivorship curve, and population C has a type-3 survivorship curve. All else being equal, which population would have the lowest "fitness"? Explain your answer

Biology - Ms. Sue, Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 9:49pm
Check this site.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SurvivorshipCurve.html

Be sure you understand what "fitness" means.
Biology - bobpursley, Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 9:50pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_curve

Well, a lot of the population of type 3 die very quickly. I guess I would have to have you explain "fitness", but my understanding, I would say type 3 is least fit.

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