#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.
#Question id: 11169
#Section 2: Evolution
The viceroy butterfly (limenitis archippus) resembles the queen butterfly (danaus gilippus), a species toxic to birds because of alkaloids it stores during larval development from the milkweeds it feeds upon. The viceroy butterfly is an example of what kind of defense against predation?
#Question id: 9278
#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution
Bilin pigments are open-chain tetrapyrroles found in antenna structures known as phycobilisomes that occur in
#Question id: 3380
#Section 2: Evolution
Human population having mutant allele to caused color blindness, following different phenotype frequency?
Phenotype |
Male |
Female |
Normal |
.70 |
.72 heterozygous .49 homozygous |
Colour blindness |
.30 |
.09 |
#Question id: 11249
#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology
Choose the density-dependent factor that will slow population growth as population size increases.