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#Question id: 3323


Which one of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. Co-evolution is reciprocal evolutionary change in two or more species resulting from the interaction among them.

  2. Convergent evolution, unrelated organisms with mutations and variations getting naturally selected in one environmental condition

  3. Divergent evolution, similar group of organisms with mutations and variations getting naturally selected in different environments

  4. Batesian mimicry more effective when abundance of mimic is more common than model

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#Question id: 4975

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The observation that tusks were limited to males in several species, and were apparently not used in food-gathering, is evidence that the tusks probably

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#Question id: 4976

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of these is the most likely explanation for the existence of dicynodont fossils on modern-day Antarctica?

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#Question id: 4977

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

There are at least a dozen known species in the extinct genus Lystrosaurus. If each species was suited to a quite different environment, then this relatively large number of species is likely due to

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#Question id: 4978

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The dicynodonts survived the mass extinction that was most closely correlated in time, if not in cause, with

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#Question id: 4979

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The dicynodonts that survived the Permian extinction would initially have had to endure (or escape from) the physical effects of __________, and subsequently, the biological effects of __________.

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#Question id: 4980

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

If an increase in dicynodont species diversity (i.e., number of species) occurred soon after the Permian extinction, and if it occurred for the same general reason usually given for the increase in mammalian diversity following the Cretaceous extinction, then it should be attributed to