Organisms, Populations and Communities: Mark And Recapture Practical

This was originally written in Star Office and then copy and pasted office. The numbers seen must be put into a table to make sense. Other than that it is a good example for practical lab reports. SUMATIVE PRACTICAL No.1 Organisms, Populations and Communities Mark and Recapture Introduction: The Mark and Recapture method of estimating population size is used in the study of animal populations where individuals are highly mobile. It is of no value …

…and other large organisms. Conclusion: We used matches to simulate the mark and recapture method counting populations. The practical worked accurately which refuted our hypothesis. The sample number of matches was large enough to use as an example. We also overcame the problem of the marked matches integrating with the unmarked matches by mixing them together in a glass jar. The practical was an accurate example of the mark and recapture method of counting population.