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#Question id: 8851

Why is territoriality an adaptive behavior for songbirds maintaining populations at or near their carrying capacity?

#XL - R Botany

Songbirds expend a tremendous amount of energy defending territories so that they spend less time feeding their young and fledgling mortality increases.
Only the fittest males defend territories and they attract the fittest females so the best genes are conveyed to the next generation.
Songbird males defend territories commensurate with the size from which they can derive adequate resources for themselves, their mate, and their chicks.
Many individuals are killed in the ritualistic conflicts that go along with territorial defense.

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#Question id: 10772

#XL - T Zoology

In an experiment plant RR round genotype have 100 seeds. In F1 generation 70 seeds are round and 30 seeds are wrinkled. So what will be

the penetrance value for round seeds?

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#Question id: 12160

#XL - R Botany

Which of these was not derived from an ancestral alpha proteobacterium?

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#Question id: 31583

#XL - S Microbiology

What are magnetosomes primarily composed of?

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#Question id: 1065

#XL - T Zoology

Resistance of some animals to certain viral diseases is based on

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#Question id: 15708

#XL - S Microbiology

In many species hormone which promotes SE and shoot bud regeneration and markedly improves SE maturation is