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#Question id: 3298

Which of the following is incorrect statement?

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. Natural selection is blind to the future: there is no consiousness or "purpose" behind it.

  2. Artificial selection has a conscious element driving the evolution of a species for some purpose

  3. Gene flow tends to homogenize allele frequencies between two or more populations that is the exact opposite of drift

  4. Alone, mutation is considered the strongest force of evolution

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#Question id: 16902

#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology

A large company examines the annual salaries for all of the men and women performing a certain job and finds that the means and standard deviations are $32,120 and $3,240, respectively, for the men and $34,093 and $3521, respectively, for the women. The best way to determine if there is a difference in mean salaries for the population of men and women performing this job in this company is
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#Question id: 3462

#Section 2: Evolution

Which describes brightly colored peacocks mating more frequently than drab peacocks?
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#Question id: 12332

#Section 1: Ecology

With a few exceptions, most of the food chains studied by ecologists have a maximum of how many links?
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#Question id: 10868

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following relationships describes competition?
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#Question id: 12584

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the following causes excessively high levels of toxic chemicals in fish-eating birds?