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#Question id: 3458

Which of the following examples reflects the concept of optimal foraging?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

  1. During foraging, a mule deer will consume food as soon as it finds it, regardless of the location.

  2. A cheetah will continue a chase for prey, regardless of how long the chase lasts or how much energy is consumed.

  3. A moose spends more time looking for food when the food is high quality than when the food is low quality.

  4. If an animal is hungry it will consume food as soon as it is found, regardless of the food quality or the risk.

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#Question id: 18735

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Phage based recombination systems are used for ____________
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#Question id: 20846

#Unit 12. Applied Biology

Nitrate is energetically the best electron acceptor under anoxic conditions and is generally used preferentially by which type of microbes?
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#Question id: 10325

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Ultimately, which of these serves as the basis for both the principle of maximum parsimony and the principle that shared complexity indicates homology rather than analogy?
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#Question id: 12004

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The figure above shows the distribution of 10 plant species that grow along a regular environmental gradient, such as depth of the water table in a river valley. All other environmental factors are similar. This figure demonstrates that
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#Question id: 19034

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Thin layer chromatography is__________