Question

A population growing in a habitat with limited resources shows four phases of growth in the following sequence.

• A. Acceleration - Deceleration - Lag phase - Asymptote
• B. Asymptote - Acceleration - Deceleration Lag phase
• C. Lag phase - Acceleration - Deceleration - Asymptote
• D. Acceleration - Lag phase - Deceleration -Asymptote

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

When a population is growing in a limited resource, the population growth consists of five phases.
(i) Lag phase No or very little growth.
(ii) Acceleration Growth in the beginning.
(iii) Exponential phase Number of individual increases at an logarithmic rate.
(iv) Deceleration phase Rate of population increase slow down.
(v) Stationary phase Essentially no net change.