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#Question id: 8851

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

#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: 4132

#Molecular Biology

In E. coli, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases:

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#Question id: 4133

#Molecular Biology

Which of the following statements about aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases is false?

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#Question id: 4134

#Molecular Biology

The enzyme that attaches an amino acid to a tRNA (aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase):

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#Question id: 4135

#Molecular Biology

In the “activation” of an amino acid for protein synthesis:

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#Question id: 4136

#Molecular Biology

Which of the following is(are) true for protein synthesis in eukaryotes?

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#Question id: 4137

#Molecular Biology

Formation of the ribosomal initiation complex for bacterial protein synthesis does not require: