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K-selection refers to Group of answer choices species that produce large numbers of offspring and invest little in parental care species that become extinct after a few generationsFalse the production of relatively few offspring and increased parental care only egg laying species

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Answer: species that produce large numbers of offspring and invest little in parental care species that become extinct after a few generations

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The K-selected species include the primates like humans, horses, mammals like elephants, and large plants. They produce large number of offsprings. But their rate of reproduction is low. They produce offsprings at late years of their age. The development of the offsprings is slow. The size of the body is large. The length of life of such organisms is long. The competitive ability of organisms is also high because of availability of less resources, for example the K selected species members are large so they need more space to live this creates competition among the members of the same species. Members of such species do not invest time in raring offsprings as in the case of aquatic mammals like whale. Due to competition the organisms which are not able to adapt in low resource circumstances extinct after a few generations.

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