QUESTION 16 Unit 3 is titled "The Hearth Belt: North Africa and Asia" because all of the following "origins" can be placed within these regions EXCEPT: O a. agricultural products O b. major world religions O c. animal species d. several language families

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A: According to Hardy Weinberg rule, a populations genetic variation will remain constant when there…

Q: QUESTION 31 You are examining a population that has recently been subject to artificial selection…

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Q: 2. It has historically been argued that competition drives evolution. However, some believe that…

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A: The United states China France have made laws that ban the use of any chemical that is toxic to…

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A: Prokaryotes are single celled organisms that lacks a proper nucleus and any other membrane bound…

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A: Darwin was the great naturalist, who gave many theories for evolution.  One of major theory was…

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A: The first organic molecules formed about 4 billion years ago. This may have happened when lightning…

Q: Overgrazing is a type of human activity that has a major impact human on grassland ecosystems.  True…

A: Overgrazing is a condition in which due to excessive grazing of grasses the plant population is…

Q: You used a QTL (locus A) to find the causal locus of a phenotype of interest (locus B).  You know…

A: linkage disequilibrium is the non-random association of alleles at different loci in a population.…

Q: question 5 (1 point) Which of the following options is the best ILLUSTRATIVE example for the claim…

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Q: QUESTION 17 The only thing that allows mobility in living things is contractile proteins (with the…

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Q: QUESTION 5 I do an indepth study of two populations of cobras. During this study I crossbreed…

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Q: You are examining a nematode population in the compost behind your house.  You notice that in the…

A: Homozygous individuals have two identical alleles on a specific locus that act for a particular…

Q: Question #3

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A: The variety of life and the habitats that make up the world's freshwater, tidal, and marine regions…

Q: protecting marine biodiversity is difficult is that ____.   a. most of the world’s ocean area lies…

A: Aquatic biodiversity is referred to as the constitution of animals and plants in the salt and fresh…

Q: The primary forest ecosystem of the east coast of North America was and thought to be wiped out due…

A: The forest ecosystem includes a wide range of species and a rich level of vegetation that has a rich…

Q: If two different populations of ground squirrels experienced increased gene flow, what would be the…

A: Gene flow is inter-mating occurence between two different populations.

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A: Species is the unit of biological classification. Grouping of the organisms with similar genetic and…

Q: QUESTION 19 Heme iron is found in: A. dried fruits and nuts OB. meat and poultry OC. milk and cheese…

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Q: QUESTION 58 The degree to which natural selection can operate depends on the degree to which a trait…

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Q: QUESTION 31 All species use the same elements to make DNA. O True O False

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Q: When the global average atmospheric temperature changes over a period of at least three ____, the…

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Q: All of the following are true statements about the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) principle,…

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Q: The process of ____ involves confining cattle with portable fencing to one area for a few days, then…

A: Confining cattle with portable fencing to one area for a few days, then moving them to a new…

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Q: The ____ for any given place on the planet often fluctuates widely from day to day and from year to…

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Q: Currently, the only predators of Galápagos marine iguanas are Galápagos hawks Iguana body size i i…

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Q: Which of the following statements about speciation is correct?

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Q: Individuals who have two copies of the allele causing Bad-Breath syndrome can survive but fail to…

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Communities and Ecosystems

Ecology contains two words: Eikos means dwelling, and logy means to study, so the combined meaning is studying habitat or living.