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#Question id: 7115


The ability of the sea urchin embryo to regulate its development illustrates the fact that there are maternally-determined differences along the animal-vegetal axis that are necessary for normal development. Which of the following statements about regulation in sea urchin embryos is consistent with that fact?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. Up until the hatching of the embryo as a pluteus larva, any blastomere can be separated from the others and will regulate to go on and develop into a fully formed and full-sized larva.
  2. Up until the hatching of the embryo as a pluteus larva, any blastomere can be separated from the others and will regulate to go on and develop into a fully formed, yet smaller, larva.
  3. Blastomeres from the animal or vegetal poles of the embryo can be isolated and will go on to form an embryo, as long as either an animal or vegetal pole is included.
  4. Blastomeres at the 4-cell stage each still possesses a portion of the original animal-vegetal axis, and if isolated will go on to form a fully formed, yet smaller, larva.
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#Question id: 11284

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following could qualify as a top-down control on a grassland community?

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#Question id: 11285

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Terrestrial herbivores are animals that eat only plants and their digestive systems contain microbes that aid in the digestion of cellulose, Carnivores eat primarily animal flesh or fluids. Which of the following is correct is correct statement?

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#Question id: 11286

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Consumption, assimilation, and production efficiencies are measures of ecological efficiency. Following some statements are correct?

(A) Consumption efficiencies for carnivores are typically higher than those of herbivores

(B) Assimilation efficiencies of herbivore are often less than consumption efficiencies

(C) Vertebrates tend to have lower production efficiencies than invertebrates

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#Question id: 11287

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

What is value of evenness in community 3 and 4 respectively?


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#Question id: 11288

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Below is a table showing the number of species and actual food web links observed in three different ecosystems. By calculating connectance as a measure of relative complexity of food webs, which of the following ecosystem are more complex? 


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#Question id: 11289

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Consumption efficiency (CE) is the proportion of production at one trophic level (Prodn n-1) that is eaten by, or ingested, by the next trophic level (In) but Assimilation efficiency (AE) is the proportion of ingested energy assimilated in to blood stream

Which of the following is incorrect statement?

A) In terrestrial herbivore, AE is greater than CE

B) In aquatic herbivore AE is equal to CE 

C) CE of grass land herbivore is often greater than forest herbivore

D) AE of herbivore is often greater than carnivore