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#Question id: 4583


Prior to the work of Lyell and Darwin, the prevailing belief was that Earth is ________.

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. a few thousand years old, and populations are unchanging

  2. a few thousand years old, and populations gradually change

  3. millions of years old, and populations rapidly change

  4. millions of years old, and populations are unchanging

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#Question id: 11257

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Close examination of the yucca-yucca moth mutualism has shown that what appear to be coevolved traits may have been __________ that were critical to the establishment of the mutualism in the first place.

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#Question id: 11057

#Section 2: Evolution

Bombardier beetles release an explosive mixture of quinones and hydrogen peroxide from glands at the end of their abdomen when disturbed by grasshopper mice and other predators. This is an example of what kind of defense against predation?

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#Question id: 11254

#Section 1: Ecology

Character displacement:

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#Question id: 10652

#Section 2: Evolution

Which factors (limited space or overcrowding; limited food; Predators; parasite and diseased) tend to act in a density-dependent manner; Tony Sinclair (1989) many studies of density dependence in 51 populations of insects, 82 populations of large mammals, and 36 populations of small mammals and birds. Which of the following observation is most likely true?

a) Insects showed a wide variety of causes of density dependence and no one density-dependent factor was of overriding importance

b) The lesser the amount of available food, the greater the mortality of large mammals

c) Space and social interactions were more important for smaller mammals and birds, because they are more territorial

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#Question id: 12105

#Section 1: Ecology

A species of fish is found to require a certain water temperature, a particular oxygen content of the water, a particular depth, a rocky substrate on the bottom, and a variety of nutrients in the form of microscopic plants and animals to thrive. These requirements describe its