Which of the following is an example of heredity?
A) Both moths and birds have wings and can fly.
B) Doberman pinschers and boxers have similar body shapes.
C) Flying squirrels have a different mechanism of flight than mosquitos.
D) Dalmation dogs all have spots.
E) Flies and molluscs both have eyes.
Answer: D
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A. between the bladder and the outside of the body B. between a kidney and the bladder C. between a Bowman’s capsule and a loop of Henle D. between the end of a nephron and the renal pelvis
The dinosaurs are thought to have gone extinct due to an asteroid strike. How would this impact on
population growth be described? What will be an ideal response?
Within a cell undergoing anaerobic metabolism of glucose, fermentation occurs in the
A) stroma of the chloroplast. B) mitochondrial matrix. C) nucleus. D) fluid portion of the cytoplasm. E) phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane.
Shrews have been documented to travel across frozen lakes and establish populations on previously uninhabited islands; thus, the shrews have a limited gene pool. If this limited gene pool has allele frequencies that are very different from the allele
frequencies found in the original population, then this would be an example of: A) natural selection. B) divergent evolution. C) founder effect. D) population bottleneck.