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#Question id: 9248

Which of the following is a consequence of biological magnification?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  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. The biomass of producers in an ecosystem is generally higher than the biomass of primary consumers.

  4. Only a small portion of the energy captured by producers is transferred to consumers.
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#Question id: 4657

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

 Which of the following statements most detracts from the claim that the human appendix is a completely vestigial organ?
TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 4656

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Logically, which of these should cast the most doubt on the relationships depicted by an evolutionary tree?
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#Question id: 4655

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Over evolutionary time, many cave-dwelling organisms have lost their eyes. Tapeworms have lost their digestive systems. Whales have lost their hind limbs. How can natural selection account for these losses?
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#Question id: 4654

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Structures as different as human arms, bat wings, and dolphin flippers contain many of the same bones, these bones having developed from very similar embryonic tissues. How do biologists interpret these similarities?
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#Question id: 4653

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

 If two modern organisms are distantly related in an evolutionary sense, then one should expect that
TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 4652

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The graph depicts four possible patterns for the abundance of 3TC-resistant HIV within an infected human over time. If 3TC resistance is costly for HIV, then which plot (I—IV) best represents the response of a strain of 3TC-resistant HIV over time, if 3TC administration begins at the time indicated by the arrow?