Biology SOL Question Analysis One

Limiting factors (food, mates, shelter) prevent a population from increasing forever because the organisms simply run out of "stuff"

Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals an environment can support

A population will continue to increase in size until it runs out of resources (limiting factors)

organisms are genetically different & those differences are passed on

organisms make more babies than can possibly survive (limiting factors)

"Lucky" organisms have cool features that help them get the resource FIRST

organisms that are alive today comes from a past version