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#Question id: 3477

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

  1. The size of a territory, a fixed area in which an individual or group excludes other members of its own species, tends to be optimized according to the costs and benefits involved

  2. Animal behavior never change in response to global climate change

  3. Optimal foraging maximizes the benefits and minimizes the costs of food gathering

  4. In reciprocal altruism the cost to the animal of behaving altruistically is offset by the likelihood of a return benefit

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#Question id: 4929

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Maternal inheritance of coiling of shell in snail (limnaea peregra) is well established. The dextral coiling depends on dominant allele D and sinistral coiling depends upon recessive allele d. A female F1 progeny of dextral(Dd) type is crossed with a male dextral (Dd). What will be the phenotype ratio in progeny?
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#Question id: 12697

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

The following test results were obtained: urine flow rate = 2.0 ml/min; urine inulin concentration = 60 mg/ml; plasma inulin concentration = 2 mg/ml; urine potassium concentration = 20 μmol/ml; plasma potassium concentration = 4.0 μmol/ml; urine osmolarity = 150 mOsm/L; and plasma osmolarity = 300 mOsm/L. What is the approximate GFR?
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#Question id: 12657

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Experiments performed in the laboratory of Anne Osbourn at the John Innes Centre  utilized genetic approaches to demonstrate the role of saponins in defense against pathogens of oat. If Mutant oat lines then,
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#Question id: 11105

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Which one of the following is NOT a function of the paranasal sinuses:
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#Question id: 10752

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following is an example of Batesian mimicry?

A) a butterfly that resembles a leaf

B) a nonvenomous larva of a moth that moves like a venomous snake

C) a fawn with fur coloring that camouflages it in the forest environment

D) a snapping turtle that uses its tongue to mimic a worm, thus attracting fish