You find a notebook that has lots of equations, tables, and graphs in it. The tables have columns for the number of female offspring born over a year, the number of deaths over a year, and the number of individuals in various age classes. What subject do you think the owner of the notebook is studying? What type of tables are they most likely using? 

A. demography; life tables
B. iteroparity; life tables 
C. iteroparity; survivorship tables
D. growth ecology; transition tables
E. demography; survivorship tables


Answer: A

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