Thursday, November 12, 2015

What type of organisms exhibit slow reproduction? Fast?It wasnt in my notes and i don't understand the question

I believe that what this question is talking about is how quickly animals reproduce.  Do they have many offspring in a given period of time, or do they only have a few?


Organisms that have use a fast reproductive strategy are generally smaller organisms that have short lives.  You can see this in fruit flies, for example, or in rabbits (much bigger and longer-lived than fruit flies, but small compared to other mammals).


Compare that to organisms like whales and elephants.  Big animals that live for a long time do not reach sexual maturity until the are older and then have many fewer offspring than smaller organisms.

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