Conservation of global biodiversity is best served by directing efforts toward areas of:
A) high diversity.
B) high endemism.
C) both A and B.
Ans: C) both A and B.
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When Thomas Hunt Morgan began studying white-eyed fruit flies, the first observation he made that departed from the results he expected based on Mendelian principles was that:
A. the offspring of a white-eyed male and wildtype (red-eyed) female all had red eyes. B. white eyes reappeared in his second generation crosses (matings between brothers and sisters produced from the first cross). C. white eyes appeared only in males. D. white eyes appeared only in females. E. white eyes appeared in both males and females.
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