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#Question id: 9213

Suppose you attend a town meeting at which some experts tell the audience that they have performed a cost-benefit analysis of a proposed transit system that would probably reduce overall air pollution and fossil fuel consumption. The analysis, however, reveals that ticket prices will not cover the cost of operating the system when fuel, wages, and equipment are taken into account. As a biologist, you know that if ecosystem services had been included in the analysis, the experts might have arrived at a different answer. Why are ecosystem services rarely included in economic analyses?

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. Federal laws of the United States exclude their inclusion in any cost benefit analysis.

  2. They have a low value and are usually not cost effective.
  3. Ecosystem services only take into account abiotic factors that affect local environments.
  4. Their cost is difficult to estimate, and people take them for granted.
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#Question id: 4615

#Section 2: Evolution

Currently, two of the living elephant species (X and Y) are placed in the genus Loxodonta, and a third surviving species (Z) is placed in the genus Elephas. Assuming this classification reflects evolutionary relatedness, which of the following is the most accurate phylogenetic tree?
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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: 3467

#Section 2: Evolution

 Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?
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#Question id: 16819

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Name the movement of the plant in response to a magnetic field?
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#Question id: 12418

#Section 1: Ecology

The number of females born in each age group is the