DNA replication is studied in a newly discovered bacterium. It takes 30 min for the bacterium to complete a round of replication at 37oC. A Meselson-Stahl-type experiment was performed. The bacteria were grown for several generations in 14N-medium and then switched to 15N-medium. The DNA molecules were then analyzed.

If the mechanism of DNA replication in this bacterium were semi-conservative, what results would be found when the double-stranded DNA was analyzed in a CsCl density gradient after three generations in 15N-medium?

#Question id: 3504

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Bird has a choice of four food resource with following character . assume all resource are equally abundant Following sequence of preference for resource ?

#Question id: 3505

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Patterns of relatedness are different in hymenopterans, which are haplodiploid. Which of the following value of relatedness R1, R2, R3 and R4 respectively in figure?

#Question id: 3506

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

An altruist provides help worth 9 units of fitness to a recipient, at a personal cost of 2 unit of fitness. As per kin-selection theory, the minimum value of genetic relatedness between the actors and the recipients that is necessary to maintain altruism in the population is

#Question id: 3507

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Rank the following from most general to most specific:

A. gametic isolation

B. reproductive isolating mechanism

C. pollen-stigma incompatibility

D. prezygotic isolating mechanism

#Question id: 3508

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In these cases, females would indirect benefit by choosing the male that having which of following attribute 

a. can provide the best care

b. provide no care, but maintain territories

c. Large males, have probably been successful at living long, acquiring a lot of food and resisting parasites and disease

d. The long tail of the peacock

#Question id: 3509

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Principle of independent assortment apply for those gene that is