Consider a population of 10 million cells. Given the per-capita birth rate of 0.002 (per unit time) and the percapita death rate of 0.002 (per unit time), the expected number of cells after 10 generations is ____.

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[Solution from source] r = b − d = 0.002 − 0.002 = 0, so the population neither grows nor declines and stays at 10 million. Answer (4).

Q. Consider a population of 10 million cells. Given the per-capita birth rate of 0.002 (per unit time) and the percapita death rate of 0.002 (per unit time), the expected number of cells after 10 generations is ____.

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