#Question id: 4711
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Starting from the wild mustard Brassica oleracea, breeders have created the strains known as Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, and cabbage. Therefore, which of the following statements is correct?
#Question id: 4712
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of these conditions are always true of populations evolving due to natural selection? Condition 1: The population must vary in traits that are heritable.
Condition 2: Some heritable traits must increase reproductive success.
Condition 3: Individuals pass on most traits that they acquire during their lifetime.
#Question id: 4713
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
A farmer uses triazine herbicide to control pigweed in his field. For the first few years, the triazine works well and almost all the pigweed dies; but after several years, the farmer sees more and more pigweed. Which of these statements explains why the pigweed reappeared?
#Question id: 4714
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
After the drought of 1977, researchers hypothesized that on the Galápagos Island Daphne Major, medium ground finches with large, deep beaks survived better than those with smaller beaks because they could more easily crack and eat the tough Tribulus cistoides fruits. A tourist company sets up reliable feeding stations with a variety of bird seeds (different types and sizes) so that tourists can get a better look at the finches. Which of these events is now most likely to occur to finch beaks on this island?
#Question id: 4715
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Claytonia virginica is a woodland spring herb with flowers that vary from white, to pale pink, to bright pink. Slugs prefer to eat pink-flowering over white-flowering plants (due to chemical differences between the two), and plants experiencing severe herbivory are more likely to die. The bees that pollinate this plant also prefer pink to white flowers, so that Claytonia with pink flowers have greater relative fruit set than Claytonia with white flowers. A researcher observes that the percentage of different flower colors remains stable in the study population from year to year. Given no other information, if the researcher removes all slugs from the study population, what do you expect to happen to the distribution of flower colors in the population over time?
#Question id: 4716
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of the following is correct match?
A |
Wallace |
I |
Changes in allele frequency due to random genetic drift |
B |
Sewall Wright |
II |
Evolution by natural selection |
C |
Carl Woese |
III |
hybrid sterility |
D |
Haldane’s rule |
IV |
DNA sequencing led to molecular phylogenetics |