According to the trade-offs in life history strategy, what is the relationship between fecundity, growth, and survivorship?

A. An organism must balance and partition its limited energy/resources among these three functions
B. They are independent of each other, and an organism can have all three without any trade-offs
C. An organism must always prioritize fecundity over growth and survivorship
D. They are mutually exclusive, and an organism can only have one at the expense of the others
Answer: 