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Lucky, Isabel J.

I conducted an at-home study on guppies (Poecilia reticulata) as a follow-up study to a lab in BIOL 306 2022W1 on Population Dynamics that featured the confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum) and a way to connect my Trinidadian heritage with my academic pursuits as a BIOL Major. After purchasing a pair of adult guppies and sourcing the necessary materials for fish care, I created a Google Sheet to keep track of everything (i.e. methods, observations, and ongoing research notes). On that same Google Sheet, I counted the total number of guppies and classified them accordingly (i.e. fry, kid, or adult) on Sundays then was able to generate a graph to display my findings over a 10-week period from January to March 2023. Upon analyzing the graph, my guppy population did not exhibit a growth pattern reminiscent of either exponential growth or logistic growth. The practical application of knowledge gained from multiple BIOL courses was extremely satisfying, and I learned a lot about fish care as a whole. I found that the guppies in this study did not exhibit exponential population growth or logistic population growth; there seemed to be an alternate population growth pattern.

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2023-10-18

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86207

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/