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#Question id: 10684

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. kleptoparasitism is a type of parasitism involving theft of resources from one individual by another
  2. Interference competition are present in only vertebrate while absent in invertebrate
  3. Intrasexual selection, males compete with one another for the opportunity to mate with a female
  4. The result of haplodiploidy, females are more related to their sisters than they would be to their own offspring
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#Question id: 12100

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Prairie dogs once covered the expanses of the Great Plains. Their grazing made the grass more nutritious for the huge herds of bison, and a variety of snakes, raptors, and mammals   preyed on the rodents. In fact, the black- footed ferret (now endangered) specialized in prairie dog predation. Today, growing housing and agricultural developments have covered many prairie dog towns. Which of the following statements about prairie dogs is true?
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#Question id: 12102

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Use the following diagram of Joseph Connell's study of barnacle distribution in Scotland to answer the following two questions


Which of the following is the most logical conclusion about the distribution of the two species of barnacle, Chthamalus and Balanus?
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#Question id: 12104

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Two barnacles, Balanus and Chthamalus, can both survive on the lower rocks just above the low-tide line on the Scottish coast, but only Balanus actually does so, with Chthamalus adopting a higher zone. Which of the following best accounts for this niche separation?
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#Question id: 12105

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A species of fish is found to require a certain water temperature, a particular oxygen content of the water, a particular depth, a rocky substrate on the bottom, and a variety of nutrients in the form of microscopic plants and animals to thrive. These requirements describe its 
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#Question id: 12107

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

As you study two closely related predatory insect species, the two-spot and the three-spot avenger beetles, you notice that each species seeks prey at dawn in areas without the other species. However, where their ranges overlap the two-spot avenger beetle hunts at night and the three-spot hunts in the morning. When you bring them into the laboratory, their offspring behave in the same manner. You have discovered an example of
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#Question id: 4932

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following is the best hypothesis regarding origins of nucleic acids?