You capture several interesting insects from a population in your yard. By inbreeding, you develop true breeding strains that differ only in the shape of their wings - one strain has round wings while the other strain has oval wings. How might you demonstrate that Mendel's principles apply to your insects?

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of the following strategies would most rapidly increase the genetic diversity of a population in an extinction vortex?

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Of the following statements about protected areas that have been established to preserve biodiversity, which one is not correct?

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of the following is responsible for the differences in summer and winter temperature stratification of deep temperate zone lakes?

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of these environmental factor(s) is/are the key determining factor(s) that control(s) the biotic structure of aquatic biomes?

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

A certain species of pine tree survives only in scattered locations at elevations above 2,800 meters in the western United States. To understand why

this tree grows only in these specific places, an ecologist should ________.

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Organisms evolve over generations to become adapted to the environmental conditions to which they are exposed. The diversity of organisms that

occurs in any particular area thus may be largely determined by the abiotic factors limiting survivorship and reproduction of organisms in a region. Which of the following limit the range of Saguaro cactus in North America?

I) pollinators

II) sunlight

III) precipitation

IV) temperature