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#Question id: 12257


Which of the following is most likely to reduce competition in sympatric, closely related species? 

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Darwinian fitness
  2. Kin selection
  3. Niche overlap 
  4. Character displacement
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#Question id: 15008

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You have a white eyed, male fruit fly with vestigial wings and a wild type female known to be heterozygous for both traits. You know that vestigial is located on an autosome. What is the probability that a mating between these two flies will generate a female offspring with vestigial wings and white eyes?

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#Question id: 1123

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Epinephrine can be what kind of signaling molecule?

a. autocrine      b. direct contact  c. endocrine d. paracrine

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#Question id: 5673

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Species-specific sperm attraction has been documented in numerous species. In echinoderms, sperm are attracted toward eggs of their species by chemotaxis. Following statements are about chemoattraction-

A. In this process Sperm follows a gradient of a chemical secreted by the egg.

B. These oocytes control only the type of sperm they attract, but not the time at which they attract them.

C. Releasing the chemotactic factor only when the sea urchin egg has completed all of its meiotic divisions .

D. Releasing the chemotactic factor only when the sea urchin egg is in second metaphase of its meiotic division.

E. The mechanisms of chemotaxis differ among species and chemotactic molecules are different even in closely related species.

Which of the following statement are incorrect about this process?

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#Question id: 4716

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following is correct match?

A

Wallace

I

Changes in allele frequency due

to random genetic drift

B

Sewall Wright

II

Evolution by natural selection

C

Carl Woese

III

hybrid sterility

D

Haldane’s rule

IV

DNA sequencing led to molecular phylogenetics

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#Question id: 15870

#Unit 12. Applied Biology

 What is the advantage of plant tissue culture over animal tissue culture?