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#Question id: 4641


Which of the following statements is an inference of natural selection?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. Subsequent generations of a population should have greater proportions of individuals that possess traits better suited for success in unchanging environments.

  2. An individual organism undergoes evolution over the course of its lifetime.

  3. Habitats do not generally have unlimited resources.

  4. Natural populations tend to reproduce to their full biological potential.

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#Question id: 11161

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies of the genus Enallagma that have apparently undergone speciation from ancestral stock since the last glacial retreat about 10,000 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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#Question id: 11162

#Unit 9. 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 homology?

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#Question id: 11163

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

The reason that paralogous genes can diverge from each other within the same gene pool, whereas orthologous genes diverge only after gene pools are isolated from each other, is that

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#Question id: 11164

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Cellular membranes are self-sealing— if they are punctured or disrupted mechanically, they quickly and automatically reseal. What properties of membranes are responsible for this important feature?

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#Question id: 11165

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Membrane lipids in tissue samples obtained from different parts of a reindeer’s leg have different fatty acid compositions. Membrane lipids from tissue near the hooves contain a larger proportion of unsaturated fatty acids than those from tissue in the upper leg. What is the significance of this observation?

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#Question id: 11166

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following fatty acids are linked to membrane proteins?