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Question
What is Mortality? What are its two types?
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Solution
Definition: Mortality is the death rate of a population. The two types of mortality are
- Absolute Mortality: The number of deaths under ideal conditions (with no competition, abundance of resources such as food and water, etc.).
- Realized Mortality: The number of deaths when environmental pressures come into play
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