Chapter 5.2, Problem 13STQ

In Listing 5.12, we set the data for the object speciesOfTheMonth as follows:

speciesOfTheMonth.setSpecies(“Klingon ox”, 10, 15);

Could we have used the following code instead?

speciesOfTheMonth.name = “Klingon ox”;

speciesOfTheMonth.population = 10;

speciesOfTheMonth.growthRate = 15;

If we could have used this alternative code, why didn't we? If we could not have used this alternative code, explain why we could not use it.