Dakota Bailey

BIOL1120
Population Growth

1.How many seeds were in your initial pepper? This represents the first generation.
285 Anaheim pepper seeds

2. How many plants were alive in your pepper population after only 5 generations?
1.894600991x10 ^39

3.Describe your graph in detail. Be sure to include whether it represents logistic or exponential growth
and describe what happens in each generation.
It started with 285 seeds and while growing each seed the increase was 81,225. The increase was
high, but when we plant the 81,225 seeds that numbers jumped up to 6,597,500,625. Then I noticed
for generation by when we planted the 6,597,500,625 the numbers drastically increased. Which
gave me an idea of the growth over time can become more and more later.
4. Describe four or five environmental factors that might limit natural or wild populations (not
necessarily pepper plant populations).
- The availability of food, water shelter and space can change animal and plant populations.
- Competition for resources
- Predation
- Disease can impact the population

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? Explain the changes or lack of change in at
least three full sentences.
I believe there would still be change, because it’s natural to consider all these factors to the
natural or wild populations. It brings balance and adaptation to live off the environment.
There will be positive change if the tolls with disease or lack of resources isn’t to harsh.