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#Question id: 10233


Which of the following statements is the most appropriate define character displacement?

#Section 1: Ecology
  1. Two related species depending on the same prey species avoid competition by feeding at different times of the day.

  2. The body sizes of two related species are very similar when they are allopatric but in geographical areas of sympatric, one species is significantly smaller than the other
  3. The food niche of a species is generally wider in the absence of competing species than in their presence.
  4. Closely related species can coexist if their densities are regulated by a predator
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#Question id: 10669

#Section 2: Evolution

The three graphs (A, B, C) show population growth (N) patterns in relation to N or time (t)


Which of the following above graph showing exponential growth?


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#Question id: 10670

#Section 2: Evolution

To estimate the number of foxes in an area, a researcher conducted a mark-recapture survey. In the first survey, he caught and marked N number of foxes. In his second survey a week later, he caught 120 foxes of which 90 were unmarked (recaptures). If you are told that the actual number of foxes in this area is 400, what is value of N in this area?

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#Question id: 11510

#Section 2: Evolution

Life history trait varies environmental condition, both survivorship and fecundity is habitat dependent in practice but intrinsic rate of increase can change as environmental change. Following life history trait is characteristic of r-selected species?

A) Later age at first reproduction                    B) Long generation time

C) Multiple broods per life spans                    D) Large number of offspring per brood

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#Question id: 11511

#Section 2: Evolution

A metapopulation is

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#Question id: 11512

#Section 2: Evolution

The mortality rate of organisms following a type iii survivorship curve is

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#Question id: 11513

#Section 2: Evolution

Organisms whose life history adaptation is called semelparity