ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is likely to happen to the population of deer? The population size will drop until the numbers reach the carrying capacity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Answer: If deer is missing in this food chain, then the population of grass will increase because it won’t be eaten by deer and thus, will accumulate while the population of tigers will decrease because they won’t get their food i.e. deer and will ultimately starve and die. Deer is a food for the tiger.

Detailed explanation-3: -If deer are removed from the given food chain, the population of tigers will decrease as they will not have deer for their food and will starve to death. The density of grass will increase as there is no organism to consume it as food.

Detailed explanation-4: -With the elimination of a single apex predator like tigers, the deer herd would increase temporarily. But since there were more available deer to preditate upon, soon the population of another apex predator, lions maybe, would increase to fill the void. Thus restoring the balance of holding capacity.