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#Question id: 12667

Which of the following is true?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

K-selection operates in populations where populations fluctuate well below the carrying capacity.
R-selection occurs in populations whose densities are very near the carrying capacity.
Different populations of the same species will be consistently r- or K-selected.
R- and K-selection are two extremes of a range of life history strategies.

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#Question id: 29024

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following factor does not determine the effective population size?

a- Variation between individual in reproduction success

b- Fluctuation in population size

c- non-random mating

e- age structure of the population

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#Question id: 29025

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In a given population of male and female will be 35 and 10. What is the effective population size (ne) for this population?

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#Question id: 3429

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following is a behavioral pattern that results from a proximate cause?

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#Question id: 3430

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The proximate causes of behavior are interactions with the environment, but behavior is ultimately shaped by

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#Question id: 3431

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In the territorial behavior of the stickleback fish, the red belly of one male elicits attack from another male by functioning as

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#Question id: 3432

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following statements is (are) true of fixed action patterns?