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In what way is tumor progression like biological evolution?

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling
  1. Survival of cancer victims is like survival of the fittest.

  2. Cancer cells that proliferate fastest become the most abundant in the tumor.

  3. Tumor progression requires both initiation and promotion.

  4. Cells of benign tumors cannot disperse to distant tissues.

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#Question id: 29091

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Increased solar energy, together with an abundance of water, results in high productivity of plants is an characteristics of____

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#Question id: 29092

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Based on the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, a community’s species diversity is increased by

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Five Hypotheses Explain How Species Richness Affects Community Services
I-Elton’s hypothesis
II-rivet hypothesis
III-Redundancy hypothesis
IV-Keystone hypothesis
V-Idiosyncratic hypothesis
a) Species that play the same roles in a community can compensate for each other if some are lost under particular conditions
b) Community services change as the number of species increases or decreases
c) there is a linear correlation between species richness and community services
d) species is an organism that helps hold the system together
e)Some species play a small but critical role in keeping the plane
Correctly match the following hypothesis with their correct  prediction;

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#Question id: 11651

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Succession on a newly exposed site that was not previously occupied by soil and vegetation refers to

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The sequence of changes initiated by disturbance is called succession, and the ultimate association of species achieved is called

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Given some characteristics of the climax community

i) Tolerate its own reactions

ii) Tends to become mesic

iii) Less stable

iv) Complex stratification

v) Simple food web

vi) Less mutualism

vii) Gross production is equals to community respiration

viii) Net community production is zero

Which of the following combination shows the characteristics of climax community?