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#Question id: 3315

Which one of the following statements is TRUE for Negative-frequency dependent selection?

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. Fitness of a genotype increases as it becomes less common.

  2. Fitness of a genotype increases as it becomes more common.

  3. Fitness of a genotype decreases as it becomes less common.

  4. Fitness of a genotype decreases as it becomes common and gets fixed.

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#Question id: 3485

#Section 2: Evolution

Optimal foraging involves all of the following except

A) maximizing energy gained by the forager.

B) minimizing energy expended by the forager.

C) securing essential nutrients for the forager.

D) minimizing the risk of predation on the forager.

E) maximizing the population size of the forager
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#Question id: 9568

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following represents a plant adaptation that minimizes water loss in arid environments by increasing the thickness of the boundary layer?
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#Question id: 4630

#Section 2: Evolution

Which pair would have been likely to agree that strata such as those depicted here were deposited gradually over long periods of time by subtle mechanisms that are still at work?
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#Question id: 12262

#Section 2: Evolution

The myxoma virus was introduced to Australia to control an outbreak of which of the following pests? 
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#Question id: 10852

#Section 1: Ecology

The infective stage of a parasite's life cycle is the stage during which it