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Which of the Following Represents a Type I Survivorship Curve

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Which of the following represents a type I survivorship curve?


A) Spiders produce egg sacs with thousands of offspring, but only a few survive to adulthood.
B) Each spring an oak tree drops thousands of seeds, but only a few will ever reach sexual maturity.
C) Daphnia are planktonic crustaceans that produce offspring every three weeks. One Daphnia produces eight young and after 1.5 weeks, four of these individuals are still alive.
D) Bald eagles return to the same mates and nests each year. They typically have two to three eggs and with parental care provided by both parents, the survival rate of the chicks is high.
E) As adults, female leatherback sea turtles return to the beaches where they hatched to lay their own brood.

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