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#Question id: 4596

In a hypothetical environment, fishes called pike-cichlids are visual predators of large, adult algae-eating fish (in other words, they locate their prey by sight). The population of algae-eaters experiences predatory pressure from pike-cichlids. Which of the following is least likely to result in the algae-eater population in future generations?

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. selection for drab coloration of the algae-eaters

  2. selection for nocturnal algae-eaters (active only at night)

  3. selection for larger female algae-eaters, bearing broods composed of more, and larger, young

  4. selection for algae-eaters that become sexually mature at smaller overall body sizes

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#Question id: 12348

#Section 1: Ecology

The following equation represents a hypothetical relationship between fitness (w) and shoot: root ratio (r) in individuals of a plant species: w = 10r-10r2. At what value of shoot: root ratio (r), do these plants achieve maximum fitness? (Use decimal notation, not fractions or percentage)
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#Question id: 12347

#Section 1: Ecology

A team of conservation biologists, surveying a population of frogs on an island, captured and marked 312 individuals in the first sample. In a second sampling, 3 days later, the team caught 140 individuals of which 26 were previously marked. The total number of frogs on the island is estimated to be . (Use decimal notation, not fractions or percentage)
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#Question id: 12346

#Section 1: Ecology

The schematic below shows the relationship between survivorship with age (relative to maximum lifespan) in Species 1 (dashed line) and Species 2 (solid line). Which of the following inferences is compatible with this figure?
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#Question id: 12344

#Section 1: Ecology

The concept of punctuated equilibrium refers to
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#Question id: 12343

#Section 1: Ecology

Hybrids between some related species of plants are sterile because the parent plants had different chromosome numbers. Occasionally the chromosome number of such a hybrid  plant doubles spontaneously. Which of the following best describes the descendants of those plants with the double chromosome number?
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#Question id: 12342

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following is a biological attribute that would most likely allow a species to become cosmopolitan in distribution?