#Question id: 4987
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
A female fly, full of fertilized eggs, is swept by high winds to an island far out to sea. She is the first fly to arrive on this island, and the only fly to arrive in this way. Thousands of years later, her numerous offspring occupy the island, but none of them resembles her. There are, instead, several species each of which eats only a certain type of food. None of the species can fly, for their flight wings are absent, and their balancing organs (i.e., halteres) are now used in courtship displays. The male members of each species bear modified halteres that are unique in appearance to their species. Females bear vestigial halteres. The ranges of all of the daughter species overlap.In each fly species, the entire body segment that gave rise to the original flight wings is missing. The mutation(s) that led to the flightless condition could have
#Question id: 15769
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
#Question id: 26341
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
Which of the following statement is true regarding introns.
#Question id: 3424
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of the following statement is correct?
A. Darwin, theory of natural selection based on better-adapted organisms would acquire more resources and leave more offspring.
B. When population sizes become too small, individuals accumulate deleterious (harmful) mutations, and survival of offspring is threatened
C. Inbreeding is more likely to take place in nature when population size becomes very small and the number of mates is limited.
D. Effective population size can be reduced by harem mating structures
E. The movement of a few individuals between populations can counteract the effects of genetic drift
#Question id: 3499
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
In some jacana species, males take care of the eggs and young, and females compete among themselves for territories that contain one to several males. Female jacanas are significantly larger than males. Which of these statements would you predict to be true of this bird species?
a. Male jacana fitness is primarily limited by ability to take care of eggs and raise young.
b. Female jacana fitness is limited by the number of males in her territory with which a female mates.
c. Variation in reproductive success should be greater in male jacanas than in females.
d. Variation in reproductive success should be greater in female jacanas than in males.
e. Males and females have equal variation in reproductive success.