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Ecology

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Set 20 Biodiversity And Conservation Of The Ocean

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Question 1

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Over a time scale of many millions of years, biodiversity is controlled by

A) Predation rates
B) Intensity of interspecific competition
C) The balance of speciation and extinction
D) Speciation only

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Question 2

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Most often, the speciation process requires

A) The establishment of a geographic barrier that divides a species into isolated populations
B) Intense interspecific competition
C) Strong gene flow between populations
D) Low extinction rates

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Question 3

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An example of premating isolation is

A) Offspring of two species are inviable
B) Two closely related species spawn at different times during the night
C) Two species have significant genetic difference
D) Two species differ in feeding type

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