While walking in the woods, a student encounters a brightly colored organism with a flat, branching structure growing on a decaying branch. Back in the laboratory, she finds it contains continuous cytoplasm with no clear cell boundaries and hundreds of nuclei. This organism is most likely a _____.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: plasmodial slime mold

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The life history traits favored by selection are most likely to vary with

A) fluctuations in K. B) the shape of the J curve. C) the maximum size of a population. D) population density. E) population dispersion.

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Which one of the following molecules is able to move across the cell membrane by simple diffusion?

A. DNA B. hemoglobin C. carbon dioxide D. starch E. glucose

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