Hector Hernandez

Conservation Biology
Jessica Berryman
Oct 22nd 2016

Generation

Number of plants
1
2
3
4
5

60
3600
216000
12960000
777600000

Exponential Population Growth

Number of plants

900000000
800000000
700000000
600000000
500000000
400000000
300000000
200000000
100000000
0
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5
Generation (years)

Exponential Growth (Log Scale)

Number of Plants

1000000000
100000000
10000000
1000000
100000
10000
1000
100
10
1
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5
Generation (years)

1.- How many seeds were in your initial paper? 60

2.- How many plants were alive in your pepper population after only 5
generations? 777,600,000.
3.- Describe your graph: Looking at my graph, I can tell that as a generation
times by, the population doubles, which is the exact same thing as Thomas
Malthus stated, where it increases in a geometrically way, multiplication or
reproducing itself for the same number as for how it started; and therefore,
we can get to the conclusion that the exponential growth in a log scale is
uniform because the increasing was in a proportional increase.
4.- Make a list of five environmental factors that might limit natural or wild
populations:

Water, the presence of this vital necessity for populations.

Weather, if it is either too hot or too cold, will make a very much
difference on populations.
The absence of other populations related to itself and on how similar
they can be to each other.
Soil and the richness of the land or the resources in order to create or
obtain requirements for that population to sustain itself and keep
reproducing.
The condition of the air, on how well it is and on how well it will be
accepted by that specific 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?
Definitely! It is obvious that you will notice major changes on the
population, just look at the graph, on the impact and difference it made
on a year for the population, now imagine when there is a lack of
reproduction due to an environmental factor that affects it, it might not
stop the reproducing of it, but it will definitely either slow it down or
either decrease the number of it in a small or big proportion.