During the industrialization of England,a species of moth developed what is known as industrial melanism.What does this term refer to?
A) It is a phenomenon where a species rapidly changes colors in response to the environment B) It is a phenomenon where a black or blackish form of a species reaches a high frequency in a population due to soot pollution from industrialism C) The phenomenon illustrates that species that are dark in color are being selected against in an industrial area D) None of the above
You learn that many plants are chemically defended and that herbivorous predators have developed resistance to many of these plant defenses.However,it appears that plants have responded to herbivore resistance by producing more chemical defenses,which in turn deters some herbivores.Evidently,this process has occurred many times over the last millions of years.This is an example of:
A) Reciprocal transplantation B) Co-evolution C) Allopatric speciation D) Mutualism
A student wants to test if a sessile species of a marine invertebrate (Actinia tenebrosa)grows differently in size and survives differently in a new environment where the water temperature and salinity are considerably different than where this organism typically grows.What type of experiment would allow this student to test for the local adaptation of this species?
A) A reciprocal transplant study B) A cross correlation translocation study C) A model study D) A translocation approximation study