1) Cetacea gives live birth to a very small number of offspring at one time and invest a great
amount of energy in parenting. Most fish, however, reproduce hundreds at one time and spend
very little time in parenting. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both methods.

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There are two condition: -

1. Less offspring, and more parenting

2. More offspring and less parenting

The advantage of Less offspring and more parenting, is that the there will be less energy involve in reproduction, and more energy involved in parenting which eliminate the chance of offspring mortality. Whereas, the disadvantage is this is very less number offspring are produced which might have chance to eliminate by the nature/enemy/predators which result in disturbance in .

The advantage of more offspring and less parenting is that there will be the tremendous number of offspring are produced with capacity of reproduction which ultimately result in the population growth. The disadvantage of this condition is that, there's no surety of survival due to presence of predators, or natural calamities, or other factors.

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