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The Nature and Levels of Adaptation - Statistics
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Solar radiation | Insolation | 100%
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| Genetic drift | Alleles are randomly selected, non-selective and does not improve adaptation to environment | 0%
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| Acclimitisation | Becoming accustomed to a new habitat, short term, reversible | 0%
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| Adaptation | Change in an organisms behaviour, physiology, morphology to help it survive, long term, irreversible | 0%
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| Resource polymorphism | Differences in behaviour, life history and morphology in the same species | 0%
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| Abiotic | Direct and indirect effect of other organisms, including competition and habitat modification | 0%
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| Cladogenesis | Evolutionary splitting of a parent species into two distinct species | 0%
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| Encystment | Form a protective cyst layer, mostly microorganisms | 0%
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| Allometric | How body parts grow in relation to each other | 0%
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| Regulators | Maintain a constant internal environment irrespective of the external environment | 0%
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| Homeostasis | Maintaining a constant internal environmental | 0%
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| Aerobic Metabolic scope | Maximum metabolic rate | 0%
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| Cryptobiosis | Metabolic rate is reduced to undetectable levels, can last several millenia | 0%
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| Basal Metabolic rate | Number of calories burnt when the body performs basic life-sustaining functions | 0%
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| Abiotic | Physical and chemical factors | 0%
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| Avoiders | Physically move away from an environmental stresser | 0%
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| Aestivation | Prolonged torpor due to hot or dry conditions | 0%
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| Semelparity | Reproduce once before dying | 0%
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| Iteroparity | Reproduce several times | 0%
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| Torpor | Short period of hibernation, hours to days | 0%
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| Phylogenetic inertia | The limits on future evolution pathways imposed from previous adaptations | 0%
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| Conformers | Undergo changes of internal state under environmental pressure | 0%
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| Smallest living things | Viruses | 0%
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| Exaptations | When a trait evolves to serve a new function different from its original purpose | 0%
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