Bacteria can act as probiotic agents, such as species of ________ added to yogurt, to help impart health effects to the intestinal tract. 

What will be an ideal response?


Bifidobacterium
Lactobacillus
Bifidobacteria
Lactobacillium

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Modern humans show a type I survivorship curve. 2. K-selected populations tend to reproduce quickly. 3. Exponential growth is rare because resources are usually limiting. 4. r-selected species tend to have type III survivorship curves. 5. Drought and floods are considered to be density-dependent factors potentially affecting population size.

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According to current evolutionary theory, which of the following is true?

A. Segregation and independent assortment explain evolution of the individual and not the species. B. Evolution is independent of genetics. C. Populations are the units of evolution. D. When studying evolution at the population level, biologists are interested in studying the genes of a single individual, not the gene pool

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The study of physical inheritance among living things is:

A) genomics. B) genetics. C) reproduction. D) proteomics.

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Transformational evolution on the population level has been rejected as a process of evolutionary change. Yet, at the macroevolutionary level, transformational change is a potential mechanism for an active evolutionary trend

Can you reconcile this potential contradiction? What will be an ideal response?

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