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#Question id: 11249


Choose the density-dependent factor that will slow population growth as population size increases.

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology
  1. Fire
  2. Food availability
  3. Colder-than-normal winters
  4. Volcanic activity
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#Question id: 4716

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following is correct match?

A

Wallace

I

Changes in allele frequency due

to random genetic drift

B

Sewall Wright

II

Evolution by natural selection

C

Carl Woese

III

hybrid sterility

D

Haldane’s rule

IV

DNA sequencing led to molecular phylogenetics

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#Question id: 4717

#Section 2: Evolution

 If Darwin had been aware of genes and their typical mode of transmission to subsequent generations, with which statement would he most likely have been in agreement?

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#Question id: 15717

#Section 2: Evolution

 In The Origin of Species, Darwin propounded two major hypotheses:

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#Question id: 15718

#Section 2: Evolution

Christians interpreted the biblical account of Genesis literally and concluded that each species had been created individually by God in the same form it has today. This belief is known as

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#Question id: 15719

#Section 2: Evolution

Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), who established the framework of modern taxonomy in his Systema Naturae (1735), won worldwide fame for his exhaustive classification of plants and animals, undertaken in the hope of discovering the pattern of the creation. Linnaeus classified,

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#Question id: 15720

#Section 2: Evolution

The geologists ________ expounded the principle of uniformitarianism, holding that the same processes operated in the past as in the present and that the data of geology should therefore be explained by causes that we can now observe.