Which of the following statements about the evolution of life histories is correct?

a.Unstable environments with unlimited resources favor r-selected populations.

b.K-selected populations are most often found in environments where density-independent factors are important regulators of population size.

c.Most populations have both r- and K-selected characteristics that vary under different environmental conditions.

d.The reproductive efforts of r-selected populations are directed at producing just a few offspring with good competitive abilities.

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#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Use the figure to answer the following question

The phylogenetic tree shown ________.

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#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Concerning growth in genome size over evolutionary time, which of these is least associated with the others?

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#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Eukaryotes that are not closely related and that do not share many anatomical similarities can still be placed together on the same phylogenetic tree by comparing their ________.

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#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

A phylogenetic tree constructed using sequence differences in mitochondrial DNA would be most valid for discerning the evolutionary relatedness of ________.

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#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies of the genus Enallagma. These species have apparently undergone speciation from ancestral stock since the last glacial retreat about 10 thousand years ago. Sequencing which of the following would probably be most useful in sorting out evolutionary relationships among these closely related species?

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#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which statement represents the best explanation for the observation that the nuclear DNA of wolves and domestic dogs has a very high degree of sequence homology? Dogs and wolves ________.