Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781305073951
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 43, Problem 2SQ
Stevan Arnold offered slug meat to newborn garter snakes from different populations to test his hypothesis that the snakes' response to slugs __________.
- a. was shaped by indirect selection
- b. is an instinctive behavior
- c. is based on pheromones
- d. is an epigenetic effect
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