Chat with AIExam 12: Major Transitions
Exam 1: An Overview of Evolutionary Biology40 Questions
Exam 2: Early Evolutionary Ideas and Darwins Insight43 Questions
Exam 3: Natural Selection45 Questions
Exam 4: Phylogeny and Evolutionary History43 Questions
Exam 5: Inferring Phylogeny47 Questions
Exam 6: Transmission Genetics and the Sources of Genetic Variation43 Questions
Exam 7: The Genetics of Populations42 Questions
Exam 8: Evolution in Finite Populations38 Questions
Exam 9: Evolution at Multiple Loci39 Questions
Exam 10: Genome Evolution38 Questions
Exam 11: The Origin and Evolution of Early Life42 Questions
Exam 12: Major Transitions42 Questions
Exam 13: Evolution and Development39 Questions
Exam 14: Species and Speciation37 Questions
Exam 15: Extinction and Evolutionary Trends25 Questions
Exam 16: The Evolution of Sex32 Questions
Exam 17: Sexual Selection23 Questions
Exam 18: The Evolution of Sociality31 Questions
Exam 19: Coevolution26 Questions
Exam 20: Evolution and Medicine27 Questions
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Draw a graph that illustrates the relationship between foraging ability and group size where group living is beneficial.On the same graph,draw a line of the relationship if group living was not beneficial.
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VerifiedAlong the x-axis should be group size,and along the y-axis should be a measure of foraging ability.When beneficial,there will be a positive correlation between the two variables: Foraging ability increases with size of group.When costly (not beneficial),foraging ability decreases with group size.
What unites the organisms shown in the figure below? 
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In what way are single-celled slime mold amoebas and individual honeybees (social insects that live in colonies)alike?
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According to the graph below,which of the following relationships between cell-type numbers is correct? 
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(40) Give an example of differentiation of tasks at the individual level and an example at the group level.
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(38) What are apicoplasts,and what is the advantage of using them as a drug target for the treatment of malaria?
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Basis on the figure above,multicellularity has evolvedWhat do the four membranes of apicoplasts imply about the nature of the endosymbiosis event that produced them?
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On the phylogeny of Theridiidae spiders illustrated above,shaded names indicate group-living species.Group living in this family has evolved
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The experimental set up in the figure above was designed to test
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Basis on the figure above,multicellularity in plants and opisthokonts
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(26) The figure below illustrates the relationship between the distance to a food source and a portion of the honeybee dance in the hive.If a forager returned to the hive with food and did a straight run of 1.5 seconds,how far would other foragers go to find food? 
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(35) Based on the figure below,would you expect all nonplant eukaryotes to have exactly the same mitochondrial genes as all plant mitochondria? Why or why not?
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(27) Based on the figure below,if a plant and nonplant mitochondrial genome contain the same gene,do the organisms have a common ancestor? Why or why not?
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