By hunting at different times of day, hawks and owls are able to reduce.
a) predation
b) competition
c) parasitism
d) adaptation
Ans: b) competition
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A. is useful for direct selection. B. is useful for identifying auxotrophs. C. uses media on which the mutant will not grow and the parental cell typewill. D. is used to store strains of bacteria. E. is useful for identifying auxotrophs AND uses media on which the mutant will not grow and the parental cell typewill.
You are studying the feeding habits of a group of four closely related bird species. You observe that all four species feed on insects. However, you notice that the species do not feed at the same time of day: one species feeds most actively at dawn, another during the middle of the day, another at dusk, and the last species feeds at night. What term would you use to describe this behavior?
A. competitive exclusion B. character displacement C. interference competition D. resource partitioning E. exploitation competition
Alpine pennycress plants remove zinc and cadmium
from the soil and store them away in their a. chloroplasts. b. amyloplasts. c. central vacuoles. d. Golgi bodies. e. vesicles.
What are opsins and what are they a part of?
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