Explain why humans follow a Type I survivorship curve, birds follow a Type II survivorship curve, and angiosperms follow a Type III survivorship curve. How do the traits of these species produce the associated survivorship curve?

Q: Describe two main reasons for rafflesia to be in danger of extinction.

A: Rafflesia It is a genus of flowering plants notable for being strictly parasitic upon the roots or…

Q: how does natural selection and adaptation happen in pests with the use of pesticides

A: Pesticides enable farmers, at affordable prices, to produce healthy, quality foods. They also help…

Q: Oryza rufipogon is the wild relative of cultivated rice. In its native SE Asia, annual and perennial…

A: Plants often grow in the environment in various and diverse conditions depending upon their…

Q: How could it be determined if a symbiont and its host haveexperienced a long period of coevolution?

A: Symbiosis is a species interaction, in which two species share a close relationship where one…

Q: Explain how the data in figure 24.29 support Tewksbury andNabhan’s hypothesis.

A: Predators are the organisms that feed on other organisms called prey.

Q: Which of these species is most likely r-selected?       Dandelion       Sequoia

A: K-selected species like elephants and human produces few offsprings but they have high chances of…

Q: What Global Patterns of Species Richness and how do vascular plants provide a good example of this…

A: Biodiversity is one of the reasons why living organisms are able to flourish. Biodiversity is of…

Q: Please Help and Explain Q.1 These Graph Shows?

A: The term epibiont refers to harmless living organisms that survive on the body surface of any other…

Q: erald ash borer, a beetle whose larvae live and feed unde lly kill-off the tree by girdling it while…

A: Mate limitation is the most frequently found process, which induces Allee effects in both animals…

Q: 100 g www.L Larvae and pupae per Bt plant T 60 0 h J TOH -- Mosaic, Cry1Ac plant --0-- Mosaic, Cry1C…

A: Bt plant Bt plant is abbreviated for Bacillus Thuringiensis plants.  These are transgenic plants…

Q: Flowers whose throats (nectaries) are too long for hummingbirds to reach their nectar are unlikely…

A: Evolution is defined as the changes in the hereditary characteristics in a biological populations…

Q: Persimmons are photosynthetic autotrophs that produce flowers with four petals. Which of the…

A: A phylogenetic tree is a branched representation of evolutionary relationship between different…

Q: The eastern frog and the northern corroboree frog share a habitat in SE Australia. The common…

A: The Eastern Frog (Litoria olongburensis) and the Northern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi)…

Q: Allan Pounds and Kevin Anchukaitis both think only one factor - either climate change or an El Nino…

A: Golden toads were found in the Costa Rican rainforests. The male frogs had striking orange color,…

Q: An alternation of generation life cycle in plants is advantageous because: each generation is…

A: Introduction:- The life cycle of plants is divided into two phases - haploid phase (consisting of…

Q: -Sided Allack on the spiny Cactus The spiny cactus is a type of plant that lives in a desert…

A: The mentioned cacti species facing interspecific competition which plays an important role in…

Q: Arbor Day” and “Earth Day” influence the passing of the “________Species Act”.

A: Arbor Day, much like Earth Day, is a holiday that celebrates nature. Its purpose is to encourage…

Q: One difference between mosses and angiosperms (flowering plants) is that: 1. mosses spend equal…

A: Bryophytes are small, non-vascular plants, such as mosses, liverworts and hornworts.  Angiosperms…

Q: What may be some reasons why the importance values for each species are different?

A: Biodiversity is a key measure of the health of any ecosystem and our whole planet. In an ecosystem,…

Q: 3% 3% 12% - Bryophytes 6% 1 Seedless vascular plants - Gymnosperms 12% 18% I Monocots Eudicots -…

A: Some ecosystem contains few organisms that are very important for the survival of ecosystems and…

Q: Why decomoposition occurs at a faster rate in the tropics?

A: Decomposition is the process of break down of dead organic substances into simpler form such as…

Q: Scientists have studied the return of plant life on Mount St. Helens ever since the volcano erupted…

A: Biology is a branch of science. Bio means life and ology means study. Biology is basically the study…

Q: he figures below show a tobacco hornworm that can only eat well chemically efended tobacco plants…

A: This exercise is all about a generalist and a specialist species. Generalist species are more…

Q: A population of orange trees in a California town experienced a bottleneck. Which of the following…

A: Bottleneck effect severely limit the population size. This results in leaving only a small number of…

Q: prepare a response with specific examples for the following statement: Flowers aid angiosperms by…

A: Flowers aid angiosperms by enabling a wider range of adaptability and broadening the ecological…

Q: Breeding and management of bees is known as : Sericulture Apiculture Silviculture Pisciculture

A: Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the care by humans of colonies of bees, usually found in man-made…

Q: The smaller flower size seen in male begonias compared to females begonias is likely the result of…

A: Adaptation is a phenomenon in which an organism develop its capability to live as per alteration in…

Q: Cactus species have evolved to cope with hot dessert habitats by storing large amounts of water and…

A: The traits and the life adaptations of living organisms are largely influenced by different…

Q: The Darwin Moth is the sole pollinator of a particular type of orchild. What type of symbiotic…

A: Pollination is the process of pollen grains being transferred from a flower's male anther to its…

Q: Imagine a plant that has been well adapted to a particular habitat, and it has been reproducing only…

A: As plants reproduce through asexual reproduction ,and the offspring which it produce are identical…

Q: This change in plant-pollinator interactions is an example of:

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Q: According to Jonathan Drori, angiosperms evolved a "more intelligent" way of reproducing by…

A: Angiosperms are the largest groupof flowering plants on earth. and it is most diverse part of land…

Q: the graph is depicting the size of eggs and number of eggs for the mycalesis terminus butterfly. the…

A: The host plants on which the Mycalesis terminus butterfly lays its eggs have a considerable impact…

Q: The Two-Sided Attack on the Spiny Cactus The spiny cactus is a type of plant that lives in a desert…

A: Natural selection occurs with cactus with 90 spine. So its population will increase. Population of…

Q: Why should the capacity to shift floweringtime influence the distribution of a species during the…

A: Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants. It contains both the male gametes and the female…

Q: Which example best illustrates the concept of phenotypic plasticity? O plants growing in…

A: Phenotypic plasticity refers to the ability of an organism to exhibit different phenotypes…

Q: Which statement BEST explains why the pattern of data in the graph supports the claim that natural…

A: Xerophyte The plants that grow in scarcity of water are known as xerophytes.

Q: Draw a simple diagram illustrating alternation of generations in plants, including the sporophyte…

A: The alternation of a sexual phase (n) and an asexual phase (2n) in the life cycle of an organism.…

Q: WWF also plan to fund a gene bank for rafflesias conservation. Explain how gene bank could help to…

A: Rafflesia thrives in rainforests but is threatened with extinction owing to habitat loss and…

Q: Question 8. Assuming that the differences in moth density are due to toxicity differences, which of…

A: Resistance Resistance is defined as the ability of organisms to grow against the effect of a…

Q: Looking at Figure 1 above, do locations that have a history of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning…

A: Paralytic shellfish poisons (PSPs) include various toxins such as gonyautoxins, saxitoxins,…

Q: Ants form associations with many types of other insects that feed on the sap of plants. One of these…

A: Ants associate with a wide variety of different insects that consume plant sap. The Ecuadorian tree…

Q: What are the possible ways to pretend harm to these kelp forests?

A: Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.