Which of the following statement is correct? 

A. Darwin, theory of natural selection based on better-adapted organisms would acquire more resources and leave more offspring.

B. When population sizes become too small, individuals accumulate deleterious (harmful) mutations, and survival of offspring is threatened

C. Inbreeding is more likely to take place in nature when population size becomes very small and the number of mates is limited.

D. Effective population size can be reduced by harem mating structures

E. The movement of a few individuals between populations can counteract the effects of genetic drift

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of following statement is correct for above population?

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Following are density dependent factors

A- Food                            B- space

Which of the following animal and their most important density dependent limiting factor are correct?

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Following is relation between population size with various strategies of species, following is correct figure? 

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

To estimate the number of foxes m an area, a researcher conducted a mark-recapture survey. In the fast survey, he caught and marked 90 foxes. In 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's data? 

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Three different population growth pattern related to population density are shown in figure

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Following some characteristic feature of r selected species

A. late maturity

B. Provision of parental care

C. High mortality during early stages of life

D. large clutch size

What is the above combination is correct?