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#Question id: 8926


Sponges and cnidarians are among the fossilized animals found in both the Ediacara Hills and the Burgess Shale from the Rocky Mountains of British Colombia. This observation requires that

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. ancestral sponges and cnidarians had formerly been terrestrial animals.
  2. North America and Australia were united to each other about 550 million years ago (mya).
  3. land that now comprises the Ediacara Hills and the Rocky Mountains was underwater about 550 million years ago.
  4. only sponges and cnidarians existed at the time the sediments were deposited.
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#Question id: 3476

#Section 2: Evolution

The genetic relatedness (r) of an individual to brother is 0.50, according to Hamilton’s Rule, only if the fitness benefit is

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#Question id: 3477

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Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?

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#Question id: 3478

#Section 2: Evolution

Natural selection may favour the evolution of foraging behaviours by predator that

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#Question id: 3479

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following could be classified as habituation?

A) You enter a room and hear a fan motor. After a period of time, you are no longer aware of the motorʹs noise.

B) You hear a horn while driving your car. You step on the brakes but notice the sound came from a side street. You resume your previous speed.

C) One morning you awake to a beep-beep-beep from a garbage truck working on a new early morning schedule. The next week the garbage truck arrives at the same time and makes the same noise, but does not wake you up.

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#Question id: 3480

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Which of the following statements about learning and behavior is correct?

A) Operant conditioning involves associating a behavior with a reward or punishment.

B) Associative learning involves linking one stimulus with another.

C) Behavior can be modified by learning, but some apparent learning is due to maturation.

D) Imprinting is a learned behavior with an innate component acquired during a sensitive period.

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#Question id: 3481

#Section 2: Evolution

Classical conditioning and operant conditioning differ in that

A) classical conditioning takes longer.

B) operant conditioning usually involves more intelligence.

C) operant conditioning involves consequences for the animalʹs behavior.

D) classical conditioning is restricted to mammals and birds.