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#Question id: 3463

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

  1. kleptoparasitism is a type of parasitism involving theft of resources from one individual by another

  2. Social behavior among close relatives is referred to as kin selection

  3. Intersexual selection, males compete with one another for the opportunity to mate with a female

  4. The result of haplodiploidy, females are more related to their sisters  than they would be to their own offspring

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#Question id: 12756

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Flycatcher birds that migrate from Africa to Europe feed their nestlings mostly with moth caterpillars. The data presented show the mean dates of egg laying, hatching, and fledging of flycatcher young, and the 1980 and 2000 peak mass of caterpillars.


The most likely cause for the shift in caterpillar peak mass is
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#Question id: 12681

#General Aptitude

The difference of the areas of two squares drawn on two line segments of different lengths is 32 sq.cm. Find the length of the greater line segment if one is longer than the other by 2 cm.
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#Question id: 12762

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Find  appropriate option for  given question . The figure above depicts the intensity versus frequency curve of an a2coustical receptor of the larva of a noctuid moth. The larva is preyed on by a wasp whose vibrating wings produce a0buzz.
On the basis of the figure, it can be predicted that the wasp buzz 1has a frequency
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#Question id: 11350

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following adaptations has been exploited by at least one kind of parasite to circumvent the immune system of its host?
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#Question id: 10652

#Section 2: Evolution

Which factors (limited space or overcrowding; limited food; Predators; parasite and diseased) tend to act in a density-dependent manner; Tony Sinclair (1989) many studies of density dependence in 51 populations of insects, 82 populations of large mammals, and 36 populations of small mammals and birds. Which of the following observation is most likely true?

a) Insects showed a wide variety of causes of density dependence and no one density-dependent factor was of overriding importance

b) The lesser the amount of available food, the greater the mortality of large mammals

c) Space and social interactions were more important for smaller mammals and birds, because they are more territorial