Question

Suppose a bacterial infection kills off most of the prey at point B on the graph. How would this affect the predator and prey growth curves on this computer model at point C? At point D?

Answer 1

it would affect the growth curves because you see if a bacteria affects predators (that hunt and eat preys) the number of predators would decrease as they would be killed by the infection
Less predators means more preys as they aren’t hunted down as much so they growth curve for preys would be positive while for predators it would be negative