# data[].attributes.body
The social factors of the great hunger case show a great example of the S4 core concept where, biological systems include and are affected by living and non-living factors in the environment. With poorer families not being able to harvest the potatoes, they had to move. And when the wealthier families ignored the famine, they caused more damage by continuing to ask for more rent

# data[].attributes.body
This is a great example of the core concept S2. When the changes in one part of a biological system can influence or be influenced by other parts of
the same system. Since the tuber's are identical to its parents, the change of one potato influences that rest of the potatoes in the population

# data[].attributes.headline
Population Growth:  Malthusian's Law of Population (AY)

# data[].attributes.subject
Population Growth:  Malthusian's Law of Population (AY)

# data[].attributes.body
Ireland's population increased from offsprings to offsprings, especially seen in the lower socio-economic classes. The increase of food production- potatoes- encouraged families to produce more children. Food was seen as this 'safety net', however, family necessitated food sources, hence the drop in potatoes.

# data[].attributes.body
The potatoes originally came from South America to Ireland through shipments and trades. However, the disease came along with it as scientists have discovered that the origin of the disease was also from South America and not native to Ireland.

# data[].attributes.body
The pathogen's desirable factors of the environment is based on a cool, moist, and dark environment. As the famine starts, Ireland had been cloudy and rainy for several months. With no sunlight, the pathogen inevitably grows as it sustains in this environment and feeds off the plant potatoes.

# data[].attributes.headline
Britain's Control and Land Gentry: (AY) 

# data[].attributes.subject
Britain's Control and Land Gentry: (AY) 

# data[].attributes.body
100 Years prior to famine, British Landed Gentries gave the lower socio-economic class farmers one variety of potatoes to farm and feed upon as rent was already high enough from landowners.

# data[].attributes.body
As Ireland supplied Britain with huge sources of grain oats, barley, that was the country's money crop instead of 'food crops'. The harvesting lands became devoted for other crops, which in hand left the people to solely eat potatoes.

# data[].attributes.body
The British government didn't provide much help to the peasants. They weren't convinced that this famine was much different then any other famine in the past. They failed to distribute imported crops that could have saved thousands of people. They also ignored the mass eviction of families.

# data[].attributes.body
The wealthy families were not affected by the famine as much as the poorer families. They continued to demand rent from the poorer families. Because of their status, the wealthy families did not understand what was happening. Their ignorance of the situation caused further damage to the famine as they often would evict the poor families that could not pay.

# data[].attributes.body
The people mostly affected by the famine were the poor irish families who's main food source was potatoes. These families relied on the potatoes to feed their family and pay rent. Ireland continued to import and export grain, but failed to distribute this. There was also an economic recession in 1848.

# data[].attributes.body
Potatoes had tubers, which sprouted identical potatoes. With the share of these identical potatoes, one potato that had the disease could easily have spreaded to all potatoes due to how the plants grow in clones. The potatoes only had one variation in Ireland.

# data[].attributes.body
Fungus like organism oomycete discovered by Anton Debrary was the cause of the disease to the potatoes.