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#Question id: 12231

Which of the following studies would a community ecologist undertake to learn about competitive interactions? 

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Selectivity of nest sites among cavity nesting songbirds
  2. The grass species preferred by grazing pronghorn antelope and bison
  3. Nitrate and phosphate uptake by various species of hardwood forest tree species
  4. All of the above would be appropriate studies of competitive interaction.
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#Question id: 15662

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You develop an inbred strain of mice that display one of two distinct syndromes. What evidence might lead you to believe that these mice are mutant for a gene or genes affected by imprinting?
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#Question id: 15663

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A mouse heterozygous at the Igf-2 locus is dwarf and has 50% dwarf progeny when mated to a homozygous Igf-2m animal. Which statement about this animal is FALSE?
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#Question id: 15664

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following statements regarding epigenetic inheritance is FALSE?
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#Question id: 15819

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Being a well-rounded geneticist, you also maintain a colony of chickens. In a cross between a female chicken from a true-breeding strain with three toes per foot and a male from a true-breeding strain with seven toes per foot, all of the F1 progeny have five toes per foot.
Based on the information that toe counts should appear in the F2 generation and at what frequencies?
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#Question id: 17994

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Consider a heritable autosomal disease with an incidence in the population of 1 per thousand. On average, individuals with the disease have 80% as many children as the population average. In answering the various parts of this question, assume that mating is random. What mutation rate would be required to maintain the observed incidence of the disease in the population if the disease is dominant?
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#Question id: 17995

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Consider a heritable autosomal disease with an incidence in the population of 1 per thousand. On average, individuals with the disease have 80% as many children as the population average. In answering the various parts of this question, assume that mating is random. What mutation rate would be required to maintain the observed incidence of the disease in the population if the disease is recessive?