To examine the folding and compaction of chromatin during mitosis, you will need to isolate and stain chromosomes at a particular stage using a special spreading preparation technique. For the best analysis, the chromosomes must be at which one of the following stages?

#Question id: 3448

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which scientist devised a rule that predicts when natural selection should favor altruism?

#Question id: 3449

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Female spotted sandpipers aggressively court males and, after mating, leave the clutch of young for the male to incubate. This sequence may be repeated several times with different males until no available males remain, forcing the female to incubate her last clutch. Which of the following terms best describes this behavior?

#Question id: 3450

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

This behavior, in which individual members of a species maintain exclusive use of an area that contains some limiting resource, such as foraging ground, food, or potential mates, is called

#Question id: 3451

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Individual A can derive fitness benefit of 220 units by helping Individual B, but incurs a fitness cost of 50 units in doing so following Hamilton’s rule, which of the following relation is not apply for altruism?

#Question id: 3452

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following is advantage of group living?

#Question id: 3453

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The degree of genetic relatedness between the offspring and their parents is