You want to grow some flowers in a fenced flower bed (2\' wide times 3\' long) i

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You want to grow some flowers in a fenced flower bed (2' wide times 3' long) in your front yard, so you prepare the flower bed by removing all existing plants. You buy a pack containing 1000 seeds of a common flower species. You loosen up the soil surface of your flower bed and scatter the seeds, then cover them with soil and water the flower bed daily. After 1 week you find about 900 flower seedlings, all about 1 cm tall in your flower bed. After 2 weeks you find about 600 flower seedlings remaining and they are about 5 cm tall. After 4 weeks you find about 200 flower seedlings remaining and they are about 10 cm tall. What is a likely explanation for the decline in the size of the flower population in your flower bed over this 4 week period? intraspecific competition interspecific competition interference all of the above a and c

Explanation / Answer

Correct answer is e

Both intraspecific competition and interference are responsible in declining of population of seed plants.

As they grow simultaneously, all need same amount of nutrients from the same limited source. Thus the survival is the fittest existed

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