BIOSC 0370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ectotherm, Semelparity And Iteroparity, Guppy
24 Apr 2018
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It is the schedule of an organism"s growth development , reproduction and. Fecundity: the number of offspring produced per organisms per reproductive episode: parity: the number of reproductive episodes an organisms experiences, parental invesment: the amount of time and energy given to an offspring by its parents. Life history traits range widely in nature: often organized into life history strategies, there life history strategies allow organisms to persist under different ecological conditions, life history strategies demonstrate the art of compromise. Increase in reproductive success leads to an increased fitness. Leads to increase in population proportion with your genome: equals winning at natural selection, however, this is ideal conditions. If your parents feed you more, and care for you more, you are more likely to be able to go out in the world sooner and reproduce first. Slow vs fast life histories: two important points. If a woman has one baby, the baby has the potential to be.
