Hello, all. I'm sorry about Friday but I had to go see the doctor again. The good news is the doctor says I'll live. Today, we looked at the formula for calculating population growth. After that, we looked at two different types of population growth. One: Exponential growth, such as the human population grows or bacteria population grows. Please remember that this is not a common type of growth. It is usually only seen in situations where everything is perfect and provided. This happens in artificial environments but not often in the real world. The second type is logistic growth where there is a carrying capacity for the population. This results in a leveling off of population growth to a steady stated (death=birth). This is the type of growth that we more commonly see in nature since there is a limit to available resources that organisms in a population need in order to grow. When these limits are reached, population growth levels to a steady state/equilibrium phase. Homework is #1-12 of the handouts.
Mr. Jay
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