An organism has 100 offspring, but 80 percent of them die within the first three months. This organism is most likely a(an) pelican, lizard, dandelion or orangutan?

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micahm · Answer

Phenotypic plasticity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Generally, phenotypic plasticity is more important for immobile organisms (e.g. ... Dandelion are well known for exhibiting considerable plasticity in form when ... more plastic in mammals than in lizards; snake guts are very plastic; carp are very plastic

anonymous · Answer

@micahm What? This question has nothing to do with phenotypic plasticity.  It is about fecundity and r or k type selection and strategy for reproduction.

anonymous · Answer

@debbie17241 Well, think about how realistic it is for each of the proposed organisms to have 100 offspring. 

Pelicans-bird. The wood duck lays a very high number of eggs for a bird ~15 in one nesting period

lizard-some lizard/crocodilians lay over one hundred eggs

dandelion- the produce around 40-100 seeds, but who knows how long it will take them to become active

orangutan-like all the great apes, just like humans.