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#Question id: 5212


Barbara McClintock, famous for discovering that genes could move within genomes, had her meticulous work ignored for nearly 4 decades, but eventually won the Nobel Prize. Why was her work so distrusted?

#SCPH28 | Zoology
  1. The work of women scientists was still not allowed to be published.

  2. Geneticists did not want to lose their cherished notions of DNA stability.

  3. There were too many alternative explanations for transposition.

  4. She allowed no one else to duplicate her work.

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#Question id: 3275

#SCPH28 | Zoology

When imbalances occur in the sex ratio of sexual species that have two sexes (that is, other than a 50:50 ratio), the members of the minority sex often receive a greater proportion of care and resources from parents than do the offspring of the majority sex. This is most clearly an example of ________.

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#Question id: 3276

#SCPH06 I Botany

Which of these conditions are always true of populations evolving due to natural selection?

Condition 1: The population must vary in traits that are heritable.

Condition 2: Some heritable traits must increase reproductive success.

Condition 3: Individuals pass on most traits that they acquire during their lifetime.

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#Question id: 3276

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Which of these conditions are always true of populations evolving due to natural selection?

Condition 1: The population must vary in traits that are heritable.

Condition 2: Some heritable traits must increase reproductive success.

Condition 3: Individuals pass on most traits that they acquire during their lifetime.

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#Question id: 3277

#SCPH06 I Botany

Which of the following describes the most likely order of events in allopatric speciation?

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#Question id: 3277

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Which of the following describes the most likely order of events in allopatric speciation?

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#Question id: 3278

#SCPH06 I Botany

What does the biological species concept use as the primary criterion for determining species boundaries?