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Reproductive Rates and Development

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Generally, r-selected organisms exhibit:

a. short life spans and early maturity
b. long life spans and extended parental care of offspring
c. long development time to maturity, but small body size
d. large body size and extended parental care of offspring
e. large body size, but short life spans

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