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#Question id: 11163


The reason that paralogous genes can diverge from each other within the same gene pool, whereas orthologous genes diverge only after gene pools are isolated from each other, is that

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. having multiple copies of genes is essential for the occurrence of sympatric speciation in the wild.
  2. paralogous genes can occur only in diploid species; thus, they are absent from most prokaryotes.
  3. polyploidy is a necessary precondition for the occurrence of sympatric speciation in the wild.
  4. having an extra copy of a gene permits modifications to the copy without loss of the original gene product.
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#Question id: 11506

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

A biologist discovers a new unicellullar organism that possesses more than two flagella and two small, but equal-sized, nuclei. The organism has reduced

mitochondria (mitosomes), no chloroplasts, and is anaerobic. To which clade does this organism probably belong?

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#Question id: 11507

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which two genera have members that can evade the human immune system by frequently changing their surface proteins?

1.  Plasmodium

2.  Trichomonas

3.  Paramecium

4.  Trypanosoma

5.  Entamoeba

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#Question id: 11508

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of these taxa contains species that produce potent toxins that can cause extensive fish kills, contaminate shellfish, and poison humans?

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#Question id: 11509

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

What is value of net reproductive rate?


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#Question id: 11510

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Life history trait varies environmental condition, both survivorship and fecundity is habitat dependent in practice but intrinsic rate of increase can change as environmental change. Following life history trait is characteristic of r-selected species?

A) Later age at first reproduction                    B) Long generation time

C) Multiple broods per life spans                    D) Large number of offspring per brood

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#Question id: 11511

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A metapopulation is