#Question id: 3449
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Female spotted sandpipers aggressively court males and, after mating, leave the clutch of young for the male to incubate. This sequence may be repeated several times with different males until no available males remain, forcing the female to incubate her last clutch. Which of the following terms best describes this behavior?
#Question id: 3450
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
This behavior, in which individual members of a species maintain exclusive use of an area that contains some limiting resource, such as foraging ground, food, or potential mates, is called
#Question id: 3451
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Individual A can derive fitness benefit of 220 units by helping Individual B, but incurs a fitness cost of 50 units in doing so following Hamilton’s rule, which of the following relation is not apply for altruism?
#Question id: 3452
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Which of the following is advantage of group living?
#Question id: 3453
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
The degree of genetic relatedness between the offspring and their parents is
#Question id: 3454
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Altruism is favoured when rb - c > 0 where c is fitness cost to altruist, b is fitness benefit to recipient; and r is genetic relatedness. It is under negative selection when