The carrying capacity is the ________

A) maximum sustainable population that a given environment can support
B) limitation on numbers of species in a community
C) greatest number of different niches possible in a given area
D) average number of offspring carried to term by a species
E) potential growth in the number of species in a given area


Answer: A

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