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#Question id: 12415

A dynamic life table

#Section 1: Ecology
  1. Cannot be applied to a population with overlapping generations. 
  2. Follows a group of individuals of the same age class from birth to death. 
  3. Looks at all age classes at a single point in time. 
  4. Follows a group of individuals born over several time periods
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#Question id: 3408

#Section 2: Evolution

New species originated via punctuated equilibrium having some characterstic feature

a. occur during cladogenesis from ancestral species

b. subpopulation of ancestral species transform in to new species

c. Morphological change is sudden and rapid

d. continuously change in their morphology

which above statement is correct
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#Question id: 16878

#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology

In a past General Social Survey, a random sample of men and women answered the question “Are you a member of any sports clubs?” Based on the sample data, 95% confidence intervals for the population proportion who would answer “yes” are .13 to .19 for women and .247 to .33 for men. Based on these results, you can reasonably conclude that
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#Question id: 12579

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the following probably contains the highest concentration of toxic pollutants (biological magnification)? 
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#Question id: 10616

#Section 2: Evolution

In a study of tree dispersion in a forest, we divided the forest into 1 sq km grid cells, choose 50 of them at random, and counted the number of trees in each cell. The means to variance ratio of the counts of trees per cell was much less than 1. What does this tell us about the spatial distribution of the trees?
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#Question id: 12459

#Section 1: Ecology

An example of an organism fitting a type I survivorship curve is: