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If the foods preferred by each species are found on different parts of the island, and if the flies mate and lay eggs on their food sources, regardless of the location of the food sources, then the speciation events involving these fly species may have been driven, at least in part, by which of the following?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. autopolyploidy

  2. allopolyploidy

  3. species selection

  4. habitat differentiation

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Christians interpreted the biblical account of Genesis literally and concluded that each species had been created individually by God in the same form it has today. This belief is known as

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

 In The Origin of Species, Darwin propounded two major hypotheses:

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Evolutionary biology extends and amplifies the explanation of biological phenomena. It complements studies of the proximate causes (immediate, mechanical causes) of biological phenomena If we ask what causes a male bird to sing, the proximate causes include the action of testosterone or other hormones

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 If Darwin had been aware of genes and their typical mode of transmission to subsequent generations, with which statement would he most likely have been in agreement?

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following is correct match?

AWallaceI Changes in allele frequency due to random genetic drift
BSewall WrightII Evolution by natural selection
CCarl WoeseIII hybrid sterility
DHaldane's ruleIV DNA sequencing led to molecular phylogenetics

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Claytonia virginica is a woodland spring herb with flowers that vary from white, to pale pink, to bright pink. Slugs prefer to eat pink-flowering over white-flowering plants (due to chemical differences between the two), and plants experiencing severe herbivory are more likely to die. The bees that pollinate this plant also prefer pink to white flowers, so that Claytonia with pink flowers have greater relative fruit set than Claytonia with white flowers. A researcher observes that the percentage of different flower colors remains stable in the study population from year to year. Given no other information, if the researcher removes all slugs from the study population, what do you expect to happen to the distribution of flower colors in the population over time?