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#Question id: 11768


As documented by peter and rosemary grant, the population of the medium ground finch on the tiny island of Daphne major in the Galápagos archipelago responded how to changes in food resources associated with climate changes:

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. During the drought of 1975-1978, the population decreased
  2. The average beak size of surviving individuals, and their progeny, increased significantly between 1976 and 1978
  3. During the exceedingly wet El niño year of 1983, birds with smaller beaks handled the abundant smaller seeds more efficiently and the average beak size of the population returned to a lower value
  4. All of the above
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#Question id: 3344

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following statements is NOT correct regarding effect of genetic drift?

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#Question id: 12467

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Review the formula for effective population size. Imagine a population of 1,000 small rodents. Of these, 300 are breeding females, 300 are breeding males, and 400 are nonbreeding  juveniles.  What is the effective  population size?

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#Question id: 19015

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

A combination of paper chromatography and electrophoresis involves______________

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#Question id: 7193

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Some statements with respect to the regeneration in hydra.

A. The major head inducer of the hypostome organizer is a set of Wnt proteins acting through the canonical B-catenin pathway.

B. The major head inducer of the hypostome organizer is a set of Wnt proteins acting through the noncanonical B-catenin pathway.

C. These Wnt proteins are seen in the apical end of the early bud, defining the hypostome region as the bud elongates

D. If the Wnt signaling inhibitor GSK3 is itself inhibited throughout the body axis, ectopic tentacles form at all levels, and each piece of the trunk has the ability to stimulate the outgrowth of new buds.

E. transgenic hydra made to globally misexpress the downstream Wnt effector ectopic tentacles form at all levels, and each piece of the trunk has the ability to stimulate the outgrowth of new buds.

Which of the following statements are incorrect?

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#Question id: 12450

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

What is the size of the human population today?