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#Question id: 8845

The experimental approach taken in current biological investigations presumes that

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. simple organic compounds can be synthesized in the laboratory from inorganic precursors, but complex organic compounds like carbohydrates and proteins can only be synthesized by living organisms.
  2. living organisms can be understood in terms of the same physical and chemical laws that can be used to explain all natural phenomena.
  3. although a life force, or vitalism, exists in living organisms, this life force cannot be studied by physical or chemical methods.
  4. living organisms are composed of the same elements present in nonliving things, plus a few special trace elements found only in living organisms or their products. 
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#Question id: 11769

#Section 1: Ecology

Which term refers to the outward expression of an individual’s unique genetic constitution in their structure and function?
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#Question id: 3491

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Some dogs love attention, and learns that if he barks, he gets attention. Which of the following might you use to describe this behavior?

A) The dog is displaying an instinctive fixed action pattern.

B) The dog is trying to protect its territory.

C) The dog has been classically conditioned.

D) The dog's behavior is a result of operant conditioning

E) The dog is displaying controlled by external stimuli
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#Question id: 11260

#Section 1: Ecology

J.p. Grime classified plant life histories into three extremes, "stress tolerators," "ruderals," and "competitors." which of these would exhibit a slow potential growth rate?
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#Question id: 11051

#Section 2: Evolution

Disadvantages of living in groups include
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#Question id: 4598

#Section 2: Evolution

Fossils of Thrinaxodon, a species that lived during the Triassic period, have been found in both South Africa and Antarctica. Thrinaxodon had a reptile-like skeleton and laid eggs, but small depressions on the front of its skull suggest it had whiskers and, therefore, fur. Thrinaxodon may have been warm-blooded. The fossils of Thrinaxodon are consistent with the hypothesis that ________.