POPULATION GROWTH

Justin Dredge
1. How many seeds were in your initial pepper? This represents the first
generation.
Green bell pepper: 251 seeds (1st Generation)
2. How many plants were alive in your pepper population after only 5
generations?
996,250,626,251
3. Describe your graph.
The Exponential Graph is flat for 4 generations then it takes a steep incline at 5.
The log graph is going straight up at a 45-degree angle. The numbers are making
enormous increases.
4. Make a list of five environmental factors that might limit natural or wild
populations (not necessarily pepper plant or human populations).
1. Drought
2. Abiotic Factors: geographic distribution of a species
3. Parasitism/Disease
4. Predation
5. Climate change
5. If a population were subjected to some of these environmental factors for
a considerable length of time, would you expect to see any changes in the
population? Based on the information provided above, explain your answer.
BE SPECIFIC which factors would cause which changes?
Yes, if a population were subjected to some of these environmental factors for a
considerable length of time, I would expect to see at first small changes in the
population but the longer it lasted whatever factor of the five it may be, there would
begin to be huge drops in the population from starvation, disease, being eaten alive, or
freezing to death. It could kill everyone if it were not controlled somehow unless
someone could find a solution.