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#Question id: 10708

Which of the following statements is a likely explanation for why invasive species take over communities into which they have been introduced?

#Section 1: Ecology
  1. Invasive species are less efficient than native species in competing for the limited resources of the environment.
  2. Invasive species are not held in check by the predators and agents of disease that have always been in place for native species.
  3. Invasive species have a higher reproductive potential than native species.
  4. Invasive species come from geographically isolated regions, so when they are introduced to regions where there is more competition, they thrive
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#Question id: 12348

#Section 1: Ecology

The following equation represents a hypothetical relationship between fitness (w) and shoot: root ratio (r) in individuals of a plant species: w = 10r-10r2. At what value of shoot: root ratio (r), do these plants achieve maximum fitness? (Use decimal notation, not fractions or percentage)
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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?