Question

Carrying capacity is

• A. The capacity of an individual to produce young ones.
• B. Availability of resources in a given habitat to support a certain number of individuals of population, beyond which no further growth is possible.
• C. Gene frequency from one generation to next.
• D. Gene frequency in same generation.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Availability of resources in a given habitat to support a certain number of individuals of population, beyond which no further growth is possible.

The carrying capacity of an organism is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely beyond which there is no further growth. When the population reaches the carrying capacity then mortality becomes greater than natality.

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.