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#Question id: 10574

Which of the following statements about the evolution of life histories is correct?

#Section 1: Ecology

Stable environments with limited resources favor r-selected populations.
K-selected populations are most often found in environments where density-independent factors are important regulators of population size.
Most populations have both r- and K-selected characteristics that vary under different environmental conditions.
The reproductive efforts of r-selected populations are directed at producing just a few offspring with good competitive abilities

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#Question id: 12347

#Section 1: Ecology

A team of conservation biologists, surveying a population of frogs on an island, captured and marked 312 individuals in the first sample. In a second sampling, 3 days later, the team caught 140 individuals of which 26 were previously marked. The total number of frogs on the island is estimated to be . (Use decimal notation, not fractions or percentage)

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#Question id: 12346

#Section 1: Ecology

The schematic below shows the relationship between survivorship with age (relative to maximum lifespan) in Species 1 (dashed line) and Species 2 (solid line). Which of the following inferences is compatible with this figure?

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#Question id: 12344

#Section 1: Ecology

The concept of punctuated equilibrium refers to

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#Question id: 12343

#Section 1: Ecology

Hybrids between some related species of plants are sterile because the parent plants had different chromosome numbers. Occasionally the chromosome number of such a hybrid plant doubles spontaneously. Which of the following best describes the descendants of those plants with the double chromosome number?

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#Question id: 12342

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following is a biological attribute that would most likely allow a species to become cosmopolitan in distribution?