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#Question id: 12577


During  a  field  trip,  an  instructor  touched  a  moth  resting  on  a  tree  trunk.  The  moth  raised  its  forewings  to  reveal large eyespots on its hind wings. The instructor asked why the moth lifted its wings. One student answered that sensory  receptors  had  fired  and  triggered  a  neuronal  reflex  culminating  in  the  contraction  of  certain  muscles.  A second student responded that the behaviour might frighten predators. Which statement best describes these explanations?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. The first explanation is correct, but the second is incorrect.
  2. The first explanation refers to proximate causation, whereas the second refers to ultimate causation. 
  3. The first explanation is biological, whereas the second is philosophical.
  4. The first explanation is testable as a scientific hypothesis, whereas the second is not
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#Question id: 3405

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Phylogenies can be used to test whether speciation has been sympatric or allopatric. Following figure shown a new species arises by allopatric speciation, its nearest relative will usually live in a different geographic area, such as in a nearby lake. Which of the following phylogenetic tree is correct?

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#Question id: 31186

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Which of the following is multi-talented protein functions both as a transcription factor in the Wnt signaling and as a linker protein that connects cell adhesion proteins in the plasma membrane to the actin cytoskeleton?

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#Question id: 11274

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Assimilation efficiency (AE) is the proportion of ingested energy assimilated in to blood stream but Production efficiency (PE) is the proportion of assimilated energy that is incorporated in to biomass. Following some statement is correct?

A. Assimilation efficiencies of aquatic herbivore is greater than terrestrial herbivore

B. Production efficiencies of higher tropic level are greater than lower tropic level

C. production efficiencies of vertebrate is less than invertebrate

D. Assimilation efficiencies of Carnivore are often greater than herbivore

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#Question id: 3975

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which of the following is not a structural motif found in a DNA-binding domain?

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#Question id: 32314

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

In cells expressing mutant versions of Sar1 or ARF that cannot hydrolyze GTP, what would be the result?
a. Vesicle coats do not form and vesicle buds pinch off.
b. The mutant proteins cannot trigger disassembly of the coat all available coat subunits eventually become permanently.
c. Unable to fuse with target membranes.
d. Blocking of coat disassembly.