Following statements are regarding to the evolutionary conservation of homeotic gene organization and transcriptional expression in fruit flies and mice.

A. In fruit flies and mice genes with similar structures occupy the same relative positions on each of the four chromosomes, and paralogous gene groups display similar expression patterns.

B. Hom-C cluster on Drosophila chromosome 3 and the four Hox gene clusters in the mouse genome are similar and evolutionary conserved.

C. Those mammalian genes homologous to the Drosophila labial, proboscipedia, and deformed genes are expressed anteriorly and early, whereas those genes homologous to the Drosophila AbdB gene are expressed posteriorly and later.

D. In fruit flies and mice genes are orthologous Hox gene groups.

E. Those mammalian genes homologous to the Drosophila labial, proboscipedia, and deformed genes are expressed posteriorly and later, whereas those genes homologous to the Drosophila AbdB gene are expressed anteriorly and early.

Which of the following combination is correct?

#Question id: 10612

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

dN/dt = rN (K-N/K )

The logistic equation above is used to describe therate 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 value of N showing maximum growth rate?

  ( K= 420, r =.05)

#Question id: 10613

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Life-history characteristics associated with K-selected organisms include

#Question id: 10614

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

K selected species in forest is characterized by 

#Question id: 10615

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The population size of a bird increased from 600 to 700 in one year. If the per capita birth rate of this population is 0.50, what is its per capita death rate?

#Question id: 10616

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

In a study of tree dispersion in a forest, we divided the forest into 1 sq km grid cells, choose 50 of them at random, and counted the number of trees in each cell. The means to variance ratio of the counts of trees per cell was much less than 1. What does this tell us about the spatial distribution of the trees?

#Question id: 10617

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Suppose you discovered a new species of animal about which you know only two facts: Large clutch size and no parental care. Which of the following strategies is most likely to be true for this species?