population growth
What population growth means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
An increasing birth rate raising the population size, so that a larger population needs more food in total.
The rapidly expanding global human population, which escalates total caloric demand.
Topics that use population growth
- Factors affecting food security (AQA GCSE)
- Feeding the human race (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Food security
- agricultural biotechnology
- agricultural economics
- antibiotic resistance markers
- artificial selection
- biofortification and ethics
- crop yield optimisation
- Environmental change
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