The nurse is caring for a patient with chronic constipation. An appropriate nursing intervention for a patient with constipation would be which of the following?

List two advantages and disadvantages for each: sexual & asexual reproduction.

A trade-off for having many offspring would be …

A patient is newly diagnosed with arteriosclerosis is being educated by the nurse on what arteriosclerosis is. The nurse knows no more education is needed when the patient states which of the following?

_____________ is the maximum number of individuals of a species that an ecosystem can support indefinitely.

Consider the graphs below. (a) represents juvenile birds & (b) adult birds. Why might the sex ratio of bird species in the figure change as they grow from juveniles to adults?

How does density influence population abundance? Give two concrete examples of density-dependent phenomena.

The nurse is caring for a patient with edema in the abdomen and legs. The nurse recognizes these are manifestations of which condition?

Early fall frost killing late bird nestlings is an example of ________, environmental variations causing  variations in mortality.

Populations can be divided into three ecologically important age classes: prereproductive, reproductive, and ________.