Answer to Question #82382 in Biology for Mohamed

Question

Read the following passage: A population of tortoises on a Galapagos Island has a birth rate of 4 offspring, two males and two females, per pair of breeding adults per generation. Each year, the parent tortoises die and all of the offspring live to breed in the next generation. No tortoises immigrate to or emigrate from the population. If the number of adult tortoises in the 1st generation is 10, The population at the end of the 5th generation is _

Read the following passage: A population of tortoises on a Galapagos Island has a birth rate of 4 offspring, two males and two females, per pair of breeding adults per generation. Each year, the parent tortoises die and all of the offspring live to breed in the next generation. No tortoises immigrate to or emigrate from the population. If the number of adult tortoises in the 1st generation is 10, The population at the end of the 5th generation is

Answer 1

A population of tortoises on a Galapagos Island has a birth rate of 4 offspring, two males and two females, per pair of breeding adults per generation. Each year, the parent tortoises die and all of the offspring live to breed in the next generation. If the number of adult tortoises in the 1st generation is 10, then the population at the end of the 5th generation is 10*(4 - 2)^5 = 320 tortoises.