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#Question id: 4597

Cotton-topped tamarins are small primates with tufts of long white hair on their heads. While studying these creatures, you notice that males with longer hair get more opportunities to mate and father more offspring. To test the hypothesis that having longer hair is adaptive in these males, you should ________.

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. test whether other traits in these males are also adaptive

  2. look for evidence of hair in ancestors of tamarins

  3. determine if hair length is heritable

  4. test whether males with shaved heads are still able to mate

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#Question id: 3493

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following is incorrect?
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#Question id: 11355

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

In the Lotka-Volterra population model for a prey population, dV/dt = rV - cVP, what is the meaning of the last term in the model (-cVP)?
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#Question id: 3461

#Section 2: Evolution

the most common way that altruism between related individuals evolves and results from
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#Question id: 12411

#Section 1: Ecology

Plant population age pyramids
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#Question id: 10732

#Section 1: Ecology

A community plus the nonliving factors with which it interacts is called a(n)