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Author: BROOKER
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Introduction: Populations are groups of organisms that can interbreed and are dynamic in nature as they have the ability to grow. Carrying capacity, intrinsic rate of growth, logistic equation, resource limit, and equilibrium size are all characteristics of growth of a population.

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