What is true about carrying capacity? A. The number of organisms being born exceeds the number of organisms dying. Be. The number of organisms being born is less than the number of organisms dying. See. The number of organisms being born equals the number of organisms dying.

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Biology

Carlos Gordon

20 October, 19:25

What is true about carrying capacity? A. The number of organisms being born exceeds the number of organisms dying. Be. The number of organisms being born is less than the number of organisms dying. See. The number of organisms being born equals the number of organisms dying.

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Allisson Bush · Answer 1

The right answer is C

The carrying capacity (or carrying capacity, or limiting capacity) in ecology is the maximum size of the population of an organism that a given environment can support, ie the capacity of this environment to:

- provide the necessary resources to ensure the sustainability of this species - repair the attacks (pollution, disruption of natural ecological regulations) inflicted by this species on its environment.

At this size a balance will be reached between the number of organisms born and the number of dead organisms.

Quinn Adams · Answer 2

The correct option is

The number of organisms being born equals the number of organisms dying.

Explanation:

A population at carrying capacity is neither increasing nor decreasing. When the numbers of individuals in a population of animals, plants or humans exceed their carrying capacity, deaths outnumber births. As the population drops blow carrying capacity, the birth rate grows until births outnumber deaths. Therefore, the number of organisms being born must be equal to the number of organisms dying.