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Mutations in excision repair genes or a translesion DNA polymerase cause:

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
  1. xeroderma pigmentosum

  2. a sun-sensitive cancer-prone disorder

  3. defective in Cockayne syndrome

  4. All of the above are correct

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#Question id: 13135

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

If average  family  size  for  the  human  population  could  be  immediately reduced  to  two  children  per  couple,  the population would

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#Question id: 13136

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The figure below illustrates the relationship between population density in the present generation (Nt) and population equilibrium density of this population in the next generation (Nt+1). The dashed reference line has a slope of 1. Which of the following represents equilibrium density of this population?


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#Question id: 13137

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Reproductive value (Vx ) calculated from population life-table data provides a measure of the 

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#Question id: 13138

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Life-history characteristics associated with K-selected ordgtanisms include K

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#Question id: 13139

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The logistic equation above is used to describe the rate of change of a population, N, with time, t, where r is the intrinsic rate of increase and K is the carrying capacity. Which of the following statements is true for this equation?

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#Question id: 13140

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

One summer the moose population on Island was unusually high, and park naturalists noticed signs of malnutrition among the  adults.  The wolf population  was  fairly  low,  near  20.  That  winter,  for  the  first  time  in  many  years,  a substantial  number of seemingly healthy adult moose as well as calves and crippled animals were killed and eaten by wolves. This description is part of a general situation in which the wolf and moose populations