Loss of responsiveness to stimuli that convey little or no new information is called

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#Question id: 11912

#Section 1: Ecology

The success of birds introduced to Tahiti or the Hawaiian Islands was dependent on the morphology of the species already present. If there was a small morphological difference in bill length between the resident and introduced species, then

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#Question id: 12152

#Section 2: Evolution

When immigration from large, productive subpopulations keeps declining subpopulations from dwindling to extinction, the phenomenon is called the __________. 

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#Question id: 3279

#Section 2: Evolution

Which two of the following have operated to increase divergence between mosquito fish populations on island?

a. improved gene flow

b. bottleneck effect

c. sexual selection

d. founder effect

e. natural selection

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#Question id: 10857

#Section 1: Ecology

Cowbirds never make nests, never incubate their eggs, and never care for their young. Instead they lay their eggs in the nests of host species, which either reject the egg or care for it and the young that hatches as their own. The cowbird is an example of a(n)

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#Question id: 16847

#General Aptitude

 Talk through one's hat