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#Question id: 12291


A school of fish splitting in two and baffling a predator is an example of the ____________.

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Dilution effect
  2. Fountain effect
  3. Baffling effect
  4. Escape effect
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#Question id: 3270

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Heterozygote advantage should be most closely linked to which of the following?

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#Question id: 3271

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Consider hemophilia A, a clotting disorder caused by an X-linked recessive allele with a frequency (q) of approximately 1 in 10,000. The frequency of the disease among females and among male respectively

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#Question id: 3272

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Calculate the frequencies of the XO and X+ alleles respectively for this population.

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#Question id: 3273

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The number of forward mutations is equal to the number of reverse mutations then

a) Population is in equilibrium for forward and reverse mutation rates

b) The population is being in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium

c) No further change in allelic frequency

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#Question id: 3274

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The common edible frog of Europe is a hybrid between two species, Rana lessonae and Rana ridibunda. The hybrids were first described in 1758 and have a wide distribution, from France across central Europe to Russia. Both male and female hybrids exist, but when they mate among themselves, they are rarely successful in producing offspring. What can you infer from this information?

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#Question id: 3275

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

When imbalances occur in the sex ratio of sexual species that have two sexes (that is, other than a 50:50 ratio), the members of the minority sex often receive a greater proportion of care and resources from parents than do the offspring of the majority sex. This is most clearly an example of ________.