Question

A biologist is writing a report about a group of rattlesnakes that all live in the state of Florida. All rattlesnakes in this group can breed with one another and produce offspring that can reproduce together. The report includes statistics about the number of these rattlesnakes, their breeding rate, and the ranges of their sizes and other traits. In this report, the biologist is describing?

A.a community in Florida.
B.a biome in Florida.
C.a population in Florida.
D.an organism in Florida.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option C, a population in Florida

Step-by-step explanation:

The population description is an efficient language is termed as demographics. The descriptive components of the demographics are –

a) Population Size – It gives the number of individuals within a population

b) Population Density – It defines the size of a population with respect to the space occupied by it

c) Age Structure of the Population – It categorizes different individuals in a population group to different age sections

d) Fecundity – It describes about an individual that is able to produce during a given period of time

e) Morality – It gives the death and birth rate of a population

f) Sex ratio

Answer 2

Answer: C. a population in Florida

As a biologists is writing about a report on group of rattlesnakes that all lived in the state of Florida. It is mentioning about the species of a particular snake but a group of organisms considering a group or organisms which breed with one another and produce offsprings that can reproduce together. All these features can be defined under a single term called as population. Members of species that are be breed with each other and can produce viable fertile offsprings is called as population. Therefore, in this report biologist is describing about population in Florida.