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#Question id: 9238

Which of the following is a consequence of biological magnification?

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

  1. Toxic chemicals in the environment pose greater risk to top-level predators than to primary consumers.

  2. Populations of top-level predators are generally smaller than populations of primary consumers.

  3. Only a small portion of the energy captured by producers is transferred to consumers.

  4. The amount of biomass in the producer level of an ecosystem decreases if the producer turnover time increases

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#Question id: 11928

#Section 2: Evolution

In most species, deviations from equal proportions of males and females in a sexually-reproducing population will confer an advantage to genotypes that: 
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#Question id: 11176

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Species that reproduce once and then die are ______ species.
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#Question id: 9191

#Section 2: Evolution

When an arborist prunes a limb off a valuable tree, he or she usually paints the cut surface. The primary purpose of the paint is to
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#Question id: 10866

#Section 2: Evolution

A form of competition, found in desert shrubs and sponges, in which one organism releases a chemical into the environment that inhibits another, is referred to as
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#Question id: 10245

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following exemplifies an evenly spaced distribution?