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#Question id: 16883

Which of the following is NOT true about the standard error of a statistic?

#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology
  1. The standard error measures, roughly, the average difference between the statistic and the population parameter.
  2. The standard error is the estimated standard deviation of the sampling distribution for the statistic.
  3. The standard error can never be a negative number.
  4. The standard error increases as the sample size(s) increases.
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#Question id: 9187

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following are defenses that some plants use against herbivory?
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#Question id: 11169

#Section 1: Ecology

The viceroy butterfly (limenitis archippus) resembles the queen butterfly (danaus gilippus), a species toxic to birds because of alkaloids it stores during larval development from the milkweeds it feeds upon. The viceroy butterfly is an example of what kind of defense against predation?
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#Question id: 11246

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following are mechanisms that help prey avoid being eaten by predators?
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#Question id: 10828

#Section 1: Ecology

Not all parasitism involves feeding on the body of the host. The exception is
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#Question id: 12422

#Section 1: Ecology

What would be the doubling time of a population with an intrinsic rate of increase (r) of 0.024?