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#Question id: 10759


many secondary metabolites have been suggested to have important ecological functions in plants:

a) they protect plants against being eaten by herbivores (herbivory)

b) they protect plants against being infected by microbial pathogens

c) they serve as attractants for pollinators and seed dispersing animals

d) they serve as agents of plant–plant competition

Which of the following combination from above statements is correct?

#Section 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology
  1. A, B and C
  2. Only A and B
  3. Only B and C
  4. A, B, C and D
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#Question id: 3335

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Consider hypothetical populations that have arisen from the mixing of migrants from different sources: f(AA)- 0.30   f(Aa)- 0.0     f(aa)- 0.70 After one generation of random mating within population, what will be genotypic frequencies?

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#Question id: 3336

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

There are 4 alleles at a given locus in a diploid population and all alleles are equal abundant. What is the proportion of all homozygotes in the population?

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#Question id: 3337

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Small populations are threatened by a least loss of genetic variability is due to

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#Question id: 3338

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

If the expected frequency of heterozygotes in a population (based on the Hardy–Weinberg law) is 0.4, but the observed frequency is 0.2, what is the inbreeding coefficient?

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#Question id: 3339

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

In a plant species, flower color locus either homozygous or heterozygous with genotype RR-red, Rr- pink and rr- white. The Proportional of pink flower in generation 0 is .50.  What is the level of remaining pink flower in a third generation of repeated selfing? 

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#Question id: 3340

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

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