#Question id: 3450
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
This behavior, in which individual members of a species maintain exclusive use of an area that contains some limiting resource, such as foraging ground, food, or potential mates, is called
#Question id: 3451
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Individual A can derive fitness benefit of 220 units by helping Individual B, but incurs a fitness cost of 50 units in doing so following Hamilton’s rule, which of the following relation is not apply for altruism?
#Question id: 3452
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Which of the following is advantage of group living?
#Question id: 3453
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
The degree of genetic relatedness between the offspring and their parents is
#Question id: 3454
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Altruism is favoured when rb - c > 0 where c is fitness cost to altruist, b is fitness benefit to recipient; and r is genetic relatedness. It is under negative selection when
#Question id: 3455
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
A duck egg is removed from its mother’s nest and incubated by a barnyard hen. The duckling hatches out in the presence of the barnyard hen and stays in her nest. After a couple of days, the duckling is presented with a choice between its biological mother and the hen that incubated it. The duckling approaches and follows the hen. This set of observations demonstrates the phenomenon of