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#Question id: 3502


Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a pattern that is seen throughout the animal kingdom and differences between the sexes in coloration are common in many organisms. Following some statement are given

A) There are many mechanisms that drive the evolution of SD, the most accepted mechanism being sexual selection

B) Mate choice is an important proximate mechanism of sexual selection, often the sex with the higher reproductive investment is the ‘choosy’ sex

C) Larger species are more sexually dimorphic than smaller species

D) Terrestrial species tend to be more sexually dimorphic than arboreal species

Which of the following above statement is correct?

Which one of the following is correct?

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology
  1. C and D      

  2. A, B and D

  3. A, B and C

  4. All

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#Question id: 11661

#Section 1: Ecology

Autogenic factors results from the community and its organism for example filling in the pond by the dead organism from the pond itself. It included several other factors except____

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#Question id: 11662

#Section 1: Ecology

During the successional process generation of community through the short time period successional process as well as long time successional process;

a) During short time period evolve pioneer community from the climax community

b) During short time period generation of the microbial community 

c) During long time period generation of end community (forest) from the pioneer community

d) During long time period generation of the microbial community 

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#Question id: 11663

#Section 1: Ecology

Successional community changes in every steps,  process of lithosere is involved in a particular order manner such as,

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#Question id: 11911

#Section 1: Ecology

Michael Moulton and Stuart Pimm (1986) showed how the success of birds introduced to Tahiti or the Hawaiian Islands was dependent on the morphology of the species already present , find out the correct graph represents, morphological differences and the probability of invasion success ;

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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: 11914

#Section 1: Ecology

Alder trees, which harbour nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots, provide nitrogen to soils developing on sandbars rivers, this is an example of,