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Please Please Please do this correctly. My last tutor messed it up.For number 1, there should THREE different plots for each disease with the age numbers.
QUESTIONS:
US Data for mortality in 2021 from three diseases is given below (data is computed per 100,000 individuals) (10 pts).
Age | Heart | Cancer | Influenza |
0.5 | 7.4 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
4.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.3 |
14.0 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 0.1 |
24.0 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 0.3 |
34.0 | 9.1 | 7.9 | 0.9 |
44.0 | 29.4 | 25.8 | 1.9 |
54.0 | 84.9 | 82.5 | 4.4 |
64.0 | 208.7 | 252.4 | 11.3 |
74.0 | 416.6 | 532.1 | 25.3 |
84.0 | 1044.2 | 1017.2 | 69.9 |
94.0 | 4078.7 | 1712.9 | 231.8 |
You Excel to make a plot by age for EACH disease (plot them separately as the scales will be different.)
1.Identify for each disease the inflection point (the point at which the slope of the plot changes to exponential increase).
The fertility rate in the United States in 2021 is given by age below.
Age | Birth rate |
14.0 | 0.2 |
17.0 | 5.6 |
19.0 | 25.8 |
24.0 | 57.5 |
29.0 | 93.5 |
34.0 | 97.5 |
39.0 | 55.3 |
44.0 | 12.6 |
49.0 | 1.1 |
Make a plot of the relative fitness by age (compare the birth rate at each age by the age displaying the highest birth rate).
2.Which age displays the highest relative fitness? At what age has net future expected reproduction essentially reached 0? (10 pts).
3.In the context of the evolutionary theory of aging, explain the relationship between the data in question 1 and question 2.