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QUESTION ID:1

The fishermen, ___ the flood victims owed their lives, were rewarded by the govemment.

whom

to which

to whom

that

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QUESTION ID:2

Some students were not involved in the strike. If the above statement is hue, which of the following conclusions is/are logically necessary?

1. Some who were involved in the suite were students.

2. No student was involved in the suite.

3. At least one student was involved in the suite.

4. Some who were not involved in the suite were students.

1 and 2

2 and 3

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QUESTION ID:3

The radius as well as the height of a circular cone increases by 10%. The percentage increase in its volume is ---

17.1

21.0

33.1

72.8

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QUESTION ID:4

Five numbers 10, 7, 5, 4 and 2 are to be awninged in a sequence from left to right following the directions given below:

1. No two odd or even numbers are next to each other.

2. The second number from the left is exactly half of the left-most member.

3. The middle number is exactly twice the right-most member.

Which is the second member from the right?

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QUESTION ID:5

Until Iran came along, India had never been _______ in kabaddi.

defeated

defeating

defeat

defeatist

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QUESTION ID:6

Since the last one year·, after a 125 basis point reduction in repo rate by the Rese1ve Bank of India, banking institutions have been making a demru1d to reduce interest rates on small saving schemes. Finally, the govemment announced yesterday a reduction in interest rates on small saving schemes to bring them on pru· with fixed deposit interest rates.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the given passage?

Whenever the Rese1ve Bank of India reduces the repo rate, the interest rates on small saving schemes are also reduced

Interest rates on small saving schemes are always maintained on par with fixed deposit interest rates

The government sometimes takes into consideration the demands of banking institutions before reducing the interest rates on small saving schemes

A reduction in interest rates on small saving schemes follow only after a reduction in repo rate by the Reserve Bank of India

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QUESTION ID:7

In a country of 1400 million population, 70% own mobile phones. Among the mobile phone owners, only 294 million access the Internet. Among these Internet users, only half buy goods from e-commerce portals. What is the percentage of these buyers in the country?

10.50

14.70

15.00

50.00

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QUESTION ID:8

The nomenclature of Hindustani music has changed over the centmi.es. Since the medieval period dhrupad styles were identified as banes. Tenus like gayaki and baa} were used to refer to vocal and instrumental styles, respectively. With the institutionalization of music education the te1m gharana because acceptable. Gharana originally referred to hereditary musicians from a particular· lineage, including disciples and grand disciples.

Which one of the following pairings is NOT correct?

dhrupad pad, baani

gayaki, vocal

baaj, institution

gharana, lineage

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QUESTION ID:9

Two trains started at 7AM from the same point. The first train travelled n01ih at a speed of 80kmlh and the second train travelled south at a speed of 100 km/h. The time at which they were 540 km apart is AM.

11.30

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QUESTION ID:10

"I read somewhere that in ancient times the prestige of a kingdom depended upon the member of taxes that it was able to levy on its people. It was very much like the prestige of a head-hunter in his own community."

Based on the paragraph above, the prestige of a head-hunter depended upon ____ _

the prestige of the kingdom

the prestige of the heads

the number of taxes he could levy

the number of heads he could gather

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QUESTION ID:11

Which of the following is NOT an example of cooperative behavior?

Biofilm formation

Lek formation

Reproductive division of Laboure

Sentinel behavior

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QUESTION ID:12

In a simple linear regression, which of the following statements represents the principle underlying the estimation of the slope and intercept?

The sum of the residuals is minimized

The sum of the squares of the residuals is minimized

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QUESTION ID:13

According to MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography, the number of species on an island is a balance between

colonisation and extinction

mutation and migration

colonisation and speciation

speciation and extinction

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QUESTION ID:14

A researcher wants to sample ant diversity in a landscape consisting of riverine valleys and plateaus. Which among the following is the best sampling strategy for her to employ?

Once an ant is located, lay quadrats in that area

Lay equal number of quadrats in valleys and plateaus

Lay quadrats in areas of high ant abundance

Lay quadrats in both habitats in proportion to their areas

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QUESTION ID:15

The rates of non-synonymous and synonymous change per site are dN and dS respectively. Which of the following mechanisms explains the evolution of a gene with dN /dS = 0.2?

Diversifying selection

Neutral evolution

Positive selection

Negative selection

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QUESTION ID:16

Which of the following assumptions allows us to use molecular clocks to estimate species divergence times?

Adaptive changes accumulate at a constant rate

Adaptive changes occur episodically

Neutral changes accumulate at a constant rate

Neutral changes occur episodically

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QUESTION ID:17

A large Population of individuals in a particular population of humans carry the allele for Colour-blindness. Assuming colour-blindness does not confer any evolutionary advantage,

which of the following mechanisms CANNOT explain the unusual abundance of this allele?

Founder effect

Genetic drift

Genetic hitchhiking

Purifying selection

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QUESTION ID:18

The evolutionary change in the timing of development is known as

heterochrony

heterotopy

homochurony

homotopy

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QUESTION ID:19

Which of the following habitats is best suited for infrasound (low frequency) communication in animals?

Coral reef

Open ocean

Rainforest

Urban area

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QUESTION ID:20

Which of the following is typical of the eyes of a nocturnal insect?

High resolution and high sensitivity

High resolution and low sensitivity

Low resolution and high sensitivity

Low resolution and low sensitivity

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QUESTION ID:21

Gut passage time is defined as the time taken from ingestion to excretion of a food item.

Which among the following animals has the longest gut passage time?

Black bear

Gam

Human being

Tiger

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QUESTION ID:22

A researcher found n number of woody species in a one hectare tropical forest plot. He employs the same method in another one hectare plot in the same forest. Based on the principle of species area curves, the expected number of new species in the second plot is

equal to n (the number of species found in the first plot)

less than n (the number of species found in the first plot)

more than n (the number of species found in the first plot)

always zero

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QUESTION ID:23

A phylogenetic study finds that certain plants of peninsular India are more closely related to those in Australia than to those in China. Which of the following statements best explains this result?

China and Australia were part of Laurasia, but India was in Gondwana

India and Australia were part of Gondwana, but China was in Laurasia

India and Australia were part of Laurasia, but China was in Gondwana

India and China were part of Laurasia, but Australia was in Gondwana

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QUESTION ID:24

The pattern of net primary productivity in a year for two grassland habitats (P and Q) is shown below. Which of the following statements is consistent with the figure?

high

Habitat P is in Argentina while Q is in Canada

Habitat P is in Russia while Q is in Canada

Habitat P is in Russia while Q is in South Africa

Habitat P is in South Africa while Q is in Argentina

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QUESTION ID:25

Which of the following statements best explains the patterns of leaf-litter decomposition over time shown in the figure below?

Habitat 1 is cold and wet; Habitat 2 is warm and arid

Habitat 1 is warm and arid; Habitat 2 is cold and wet

Habitat 1 is cold and arid; Habitat 2 is warm and wet

Habitat 1 is warm and wet; Habitat 2 is cold and arid

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QUESTION ID:26

To compare biomass of a fish species in two lakes, A and B, a researcher records live- weights of 30 individuals from each lake. She assumes that these two datasets are normally distributed and have equal variances. She calculates

where :XA and xb ru·e mean values from the respective lakes, and s is the pooled standard error. What is this quantity Q?

Cancelation coefficient

Regression coefficient

t-statistic

x²-statistic

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QUESTION ID:27

While developing his the01y of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin was influenced by the work of

Charles Lyell and Thomas Malthus

Francis Crick and James Watson

Gregor Mendel and J.B.S. Haldane

Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher

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QUESTION ID:28

Weakly-electric fish typically produce electric voltages of less than 1 volt for communication and navigation. Which of the following features is NOT a characteristic of

weakly-electric fish?

Electrocytes

Electroreception capabilities

Exclusively marine habit

Mechanisms to avoid signal jamming

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QUESTION ID:29

Match the combination of primates and trees to the state/union territory where they can be found.

Primate and Tree combination	State
P: Bonnet macaque; Figs	i: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Q: Crab-eating macaque; Mangroves	ii: Himachal Pradesh
R: Lion-tailed macaque; Myristica	iii: Maharashtra
S: Rhesus macaque; Deodar	iv: Kerala

P - i; Q - iii; R- iv; S - ii

P-iii; Q - i; R- iv; S - ii

P-ii; Q-i; R- iii; S - iv

P - i; Q - iv; R- ii; S - iii

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QUESTION ID:30

Which of the following crops should show the LOWEST proportional increase in photosynthetic rate under rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere?

Barley

Maize

Rice

Wheat

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QUESTION ID:31

Which among the following is the best indicator of the precision with which a population parmneter is estimated?

Degrees of freedom

Mean

Sample size

Standm·d enor

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QUESTION ID:32

Which of the following hormones regulates moulting in arthropods?

Corticosterone

Ecdysone

Gibberelin

Hydrocrtisone

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QUESTION ID:33

A study found that grazing decreased species richness when productivity was low, and increased species richness when productivity was high. Which of the following figures best represents this result? ill the figure, the dotted line represents species richness in grazed plots and the solid line represents species richness in plots without grazing.

iii

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QUESTION ID:34

The mean height of students in a class (number of students, n=10) was initially estimated to be 6 feet and 6 inches. Later an error was detected, where one boy's height was recorded as 10 feet taller than his actual height. The correct mean height of the students in the class is __ inches (round off to 1 decimal place).

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QUESTION ID:35

Two true-breeding lines of a moth, one with black wings and the other with red wings, are crossed. All of the resulting offspring in the F 1 generation had red wings. These offspring are crossed to produce the F2 generation of moths where the expected fraction of moths with black wings in the population is __ (round off to two decimal places).

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QUESTION ID:36

A teacher proposed a null hypothesis (H0) that there is no difference in the mean heights of boys and girls in his class. His alterative hypothesis (Ha) was that boys are taller than girls.

The figure below shows the probability distribution, i.e. probability density function, of the difference in the mean height of boys and girls if the null hypothesis were hue. The observed mean difference in heights is shown by the solid black circle. The dotted line represents the range 11 ± 2 a whereas the solid line shows the range 11 ± 3 a.

Assuming a significance level of 0.05, which of the following conclusions is correct?

H0 is accepted

H0 is rejected

Ha is accepted

Ha is rejected

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QUESTION ID:37

Females in many birds and mammals mate with multiple males, in addition to their paired- male. Which of the following is an INCORRECT adaptive explanation for such extra-pair mating?

Increased genetic quality of offspring

Increased care of offspring by the paired-male

Increased probability of fertilization

Increased resources for offspring production

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QUESTION ID:38

A researcher hypothesized that females of a bird species prefer to mate with long-tailed males. To test this hypothesis, she assigned male birds of similar tail lengths to one of the following four treatments:

1. Intact - tails left unmanipulated

2. Re-attached - tails cut and re-attached without any change in length

3. Shmiened - tails cut, shmiened and re-attached

4. Elongated - tails cut, elongated and re-attached

She measured mating success of these experimental birds and the results from this are shown below. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Which of the following inferences are consistent with these results?

i. Experimental manipulation of tails decreased male mating success

ii. Females preferred to mate with males with short tails

iii. Females preferred to mate with males with long tails

i only

i and iii only

i and ii only

iii only

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QUESTION ID:39

Highly repetitive sequences are most likely to be prevalent in regions of the genome with ___ recombination rate and originate via ___ crossing over. Choose the right pair of words that completes this statement correctly.

high; equal

high; unequal

low; equal

low; unequal

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QUESTION ID:40

Which of the following is correct about first and second derivatives at points P, Q and R for f(x) = sin(x) shown below?

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QUESTION ID:41

Which of the following is NOT a proximate explanation for group cohesion among animals?

Animals follow a common path while foraging

Animals follow their nearest neighbor while foraging

Animals reduce predation while foraging

Animals secrete pheromones to attract conspecifics while foraging

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QUESTION ID:42

Which of the following statements is LEAST likely to explain the evolution of dispersal?

Dispersal enhances chances of finding novel habitats

Dispersal regulates population densities

Dispersal reduces parent-offspring conflict

Dispersal reduces sibling conflict

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QUESTION ID:43

Which of the following plots describes the expected relationship between population size (y-axis) and generation time (x-axis) in vei1ebrates? Here, each data point represents a different ve1tebrate species and the generation time is defined as the average interval between two generations.

III

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QUESTION ID:44

Six different species of centipedes represented by the following phylogenetic tree have these single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at a given locus. Assuming maximum parsimony (or minimum evolutionary changes), what is the most likely nucleotide in the ancestor 'P'?

A or C

A or G

C or G

C or T

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QUESTION ID:45

Garter snakes have evolved resistance to the poisonous secretions of the rough-skinned newts. The following figure describes poison production in newts and the resistance (measured as amount of poison tolerated) in garter snakes in three different geographical areas. Given this information, which of the following statements is correct regarding the evolution of poison resistance in garter snakes?

Evolution of resistance is neutral

Snakes in Area 2 are more adapted than the others

Snakes in Area 3 are less adapted than the others

The resistance mechanism is costly

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QUESTION ID:46

Many bird species show cooperative breeding. Offspring are cared for by parents and other individuals (helpers) who are typically offspring from previous years. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate evolutionary explanation for why helpers do not leave and breed on their own?

At high population density new breeding territories are difficult to obtain and helpers gain more from staying and helping than from dispersing to breed

In environments where resources are scarce, helpers gain more by suppressing their reproduction and minimizing population extinction than from dispersing to breed

When complex parental care is required for offspring survival, helpers gain more by staying and learning to care than from dispersing to breed

When predation risk during dispersal is high, helpers gain more by staying and helping than from dispersing to breed

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QUESTION ID:47

The relative performance of amphibians adapted to tropical (dashed line) and temperate (solid line) climates as a function of temperature is shown below. Assume that global warming will result in an equal increase in mean temperatures over the next 30 years in both regions. Which of the following statements about the effects of global warming on these two amphibians is most likely?

Temperate and tropical amphibians will be similarly impacted

Temperate amphibians will be more negatively impacted than tropical amphibians

Tropical amphibians will be more negatively impacted than temperate amphibians

Tropical amphibians will be positively impacted, while temperate amphibians will be negatively impacted

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QUESTION ID:48

Global warming potential of different greenhouse gases (C0₂, CH₄ N₂0, etc) is dete1mined by their:

P: ability to absorb infrared radiation

Q: concentration in the atmosphere

R: residence time in the atmosphere

S: source of origin (whether natural, or anthropogenic)

P &R only

P, Q& R only

Q, R&S only

Q &S only

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QUESTION ID:49

A hornbill foraging exclusively on figs in a tropical forest spends an average of 36 minutes on a tree before moving to the next tree. The density of fig trees in the forest decreases by half. In accordance with optimal foraging the my, which of following represents a possible duration (in minutes) that the hornbill may spend per tree?

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QUESTION ID:50

Type-I errors in statistical tests represent false positives, where a time null hypothesis is falsely rejected. Type-IT errors represent false negatives where we fail to reject a false null hypothesis. For a given experimental system, increasing sample size will

decrease both Type-I and Type-IT errors

decrease Type-I and increase Type-IT errors

increase both Type-I and Type-IT errors

increase Type-I and decrease Type-IT errors

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QUESTION ID:51

Semelparous species are those that produce all of their offspring in a single reproductive event. The survivorship curve of a population of a semelparous species would most likely resemble which of the following?

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QUESTION ID:52

Bergmann's rule describes the increase in body size observed in related organisms as we go from the equator to the poles. Which of the following is a possible explanation for this pattern?

Decreased body mass in smaller organisms helps generate less heat

Decreased surface area to volume ratios in larger organisms helps conserve heat

Increased body mass in the poles is necessary to counter increased competition

Increased surface area in larger organisms helps efficient gas exchange in the poles

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QUESTION ID:53

To estimate the number of foxes in an area, a researcher conducted a mark-recapture survey. fu the first survey, he caught and marked 90 foxes. fu his second survey a week later, he caught 120 foxes of which 40 were marked (recaptures). If you are told that the actual number of foxes in this area is 400, which of the following is a plausible explanation for the anomaly in the researcher data?

Capture increased mortality in the marked foxes

Large mortality of foxes between the two surveys

The marked foxes were more likely to avoid recapture

The marked foxes were more likely to be recaptured

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QUESTION ID:54

Which one of the statements below best describes a plant species with the timing of reproductive events shown in the following figure?

The plant does not require animal pollinators

The plant relies on diurnal pollinators only

The plant relies on diurnal and nocturnal pollinators

The plant relies on nocturnal pollinators only

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QUESTION ID:55

Match species in column A to its phylogenetically closest relative in column B.

Column A	Column B
(P) Sperm whale	(V) Sea anemone
(Q) Corals	(W) Guinea Pig
(R) Platypus	(X) Cuttlefish
(S) Sea hare	(Y) Hippopotamus
(T) Prairie dog	(Z) Echidna

P - W; Q - V; R- Z; S -X; T - Y

P - W; Q - X; R- Z; S - X; T- Y

P- Y; Q - V; R- Z; S -X; T - W

P- Y; Q- V; R- Z; S - W; T- X

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QUESTION ID:56

Under which of the following conditions is rapid pollen tubes growth most likely to evolve?

In a self-compatible species with few ovules

In a self-compatible species with many ovules

In a self-incompatible species with few ovules

In a self-incompatible species with many ovules

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QUESTION ID:57

Which of the following correctly represents a decreasing order of tree species richness?

P - Dry tropical forests in Maharashtra

Q - Lowland wet tropical forests in Arunachal Pradesh

R - Scrub forest in Rajasthan

S - Wet tropical forests in Kerala

Q > R > S > P

Q > S > P > R

S > P > Q > R

S > Q > R > P

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QUESTION ID:58

A forester, pictured below, is trying to measure the height of a tree. Her height is x =1.5 m. She stands y = 10 m away from a tree, from where the angle subtended to the top of the tree is z = 45°. The height of the tree is m (round off to 1 decimal place).

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QUESTION ID:59

In a recently discovered fossil, only 0.39% of C¹⁴found in living fossils is present. If the half-life of C¹⁴ is 5730 years, the age of the fossil is expected to be years (round

off to the nearest integer).

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QUESTION ID:60

A beaker contains a large number of spherical nuts of two types, one with radius 1 cm and the other with 2 cm, in the ratio 2:1. A squirrel picks one nut from a random point in this beaker. Assuming that the beaker is well-mixed, the probability of picking the smaller nut ........... is (round off to 1 decimal place).

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QUESTION ID:61

In a closed population following logistic growth, per capita birth rate band per capita death rated va1y with population size N as b = 0.1- 0.0001N and d = 0.01 + 0.00002N, respectively. The carrying capacity K of this population is __ individuals.

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QUESTION ID:62

A population of birds has a 3:2 male to female adult sex ratio at the beginning of the breeding season. During the breeding season, every female produces 8 eggs of which 4 survive to become juveniles. A census at the end of the breeding season accurately estimates the bird population to be 1300 individuals. Assuming no deaths, the number of adult males in this population is individuals.

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QUESTION ID:63

The coordinates of P is (0,1), Q is (0,3), R is (2,0) and S is (1,0). The area of the trapezoid PQRS is (round off to 1 decimal place).

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QUESTION ID:64

Trees in two patches A and B can disperse seeds to a bare patch C. The probability of a seed being dispersed from A to C is 0.5 and the probability of germination of such a seed is 0.1. Likewise, the probability of a seed being dispersed from B to C is 0.4 and the probability of germination of such a seed is 0.2. If the number of seeds produced in patch A is 100 and that in B is 200, the expected number of germinated seeds in patch C is __

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QUESTION ID:65

A bacterial population grows from 10⁶ cells to 5.5 x 10⁷ cells in 20 minutes. Assuming that the growth was not resource limited, the per-capita growth rate of bacteria is __ per minute (round off to 2 decimal places).

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