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#Question id: 4655


Over evolutionary time, many cave-dwelling organisms have lost their eyes. Tapeworms have lost their digestive systems. Whales have lost their hind limbs. How can natural selection account for these losses?

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  1. Natural selection cannot account for losses, only for innovations.

  2. Natural selection accounts for these losses by the principle of use and disuse.

  3. Under particular circumstances that persisted for long periods, each of these structures presented greater costs than benefits.

  4. The ancestors of these organisms experienced harmful mutations that forced them to find new habitats that these species had not previously used.

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#Question id: 3524

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Which of the following genotypes would produce the greatest variety of gametes of the alleles assorted independently?

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#Question id: 3266

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One species mates at the season when daylight is increasing from 13 hours to 13 hours, 15 minutes; another species mates at the season when daylight is increasing from 14 hours to 14 hours, 15 minutes. The isolating mechanism is

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#Question id: 3267

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In a typical Mendelian population, individuals carrying gene ‘a’ in homozygous condition suffer from phenylketonurea. Those with A in homozygous condition are normal. Others, who are heterozygotic with Aa, are carriers. If the frequency of ‘a’ in a population is 0.20, what is the percentage of normal individual in the population?

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#Question id: 3268

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A population of insects is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for a gene with alleles A = orange and a = yellow eyes. There are 91% orange and 9% yellow individuals in the population. If the fitness of the yellow phenotype suddenly drops to zero, what will be the allele frequency in the next generation?

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#Question id: 4721

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PKU, results from a recessive allele; persons homozygous for this allele, if untreated, exhibit mental retardation, blue eyes, and light skin color. This character categorized as

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#Question id: 3269

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Two plant species live in the same biome but on different continents. Although the two species are not at all closely related, they may appear quite similar as a result of