on day 12, how many p. caudatum remained in the mixed population? How does competition affect population growth? Is this not how marriage is like?

Lab2 wk3 Population Biology How does competition affect population growth? The genus Paramecium consists of unicellular species of protists that live in freshwater environments. Under ideal conditions-sufficient food, water, and space-populations of these species grow rapidly and follow a pattern known as exponential growth. Exponential growth is explosive population growth in which the total number of potentially reproducing organisms increases with each generation. However, populations of organisms will not increase in size forever. Eventually, limitations on food, water, and other resources will cause the population to stop increasing. When a population arrives at the point where its size remains stable, it has reached the