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Which of the following statements is INCORRECT regarding life history traits?
A. | Variations in life history traits can result in different adult morphologies |
B. | An organism's life history refers to how it is allocating its energy and resources to different functions, such as growth or reproduction |
C. | Life history strategies are determined by allocation of energy and resources between growth and reproduction, but have nothing to do with an organism's survival |
D. | Members of the same species can have different life histories |
E. | Life history traits can show phenotypic plasticity under different environmental conditions |
Life history trait:
Life history theory explains how specific developmental stages require organisms to differentially allocate limited resources to navigate various aspects of growth, survival and reproduction.
Life history is based on the natural selection.
All organisms need energy and nutrients to grow, survive and reproduce. These resources are limited, and there exists competition between organisms to use them.
In order to use those resources for growth, reproduction and survival, the organisms maximize their fitness. It also depends on the number of offspring’s the organisms produce for next generation.
Organisms with inherited traits that make use of the resources effectively will produce more offspring’s for the next generation; those lacking the traits will not survive, causing only the best traits selected by nature over generations.
Over long period of time this results in the collection of life history traits. These traits are well adapted for the environment
Answer:
Which of the following statement is INCORRECT regarding life history traits?
C. Life history strategies are determined by allocation of energy and resources between growth and reproduction, but nothing to do with an organism’s survival.