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Answer: The correct answer is- C.
Carrying capacity can be described as the maximum number of organisms belonging to a particular species that can be sustained by resources present in the area.
Due to the presence of limiting factors ( such as food, water, weather conditions), the size of a population usually stays near its carrying capacity.
This is because initially population experience rapid growth but later on due the limiting factor ( environmental factor that causes decline in the population) it will decline and then stabilize near the carrying capacity.
Thus, population size stays near the carrying capacity because of limiting factors.