A lion and a tiger mate in a zoo; their offspring survive to…
A lion and a tiger mate in a zoo; their offspring survive to adulthood but cannot create viable sperm or eggs. This result demonstrates that, as species, lions and tigers are reproductively isolated due to which of the following mechanisms?
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A recording of the electrical activity of a patient’s heart shows that the atria are contracting regularly and normally, but every few beats the ventricles fail to contract. Which of the following probably is not functioning properly?
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A new 8 lane highway is built through the center of a snail’s geographic range. Since this highway is too wide and dry for a snail to survive when trying to cross the road, snails on the east side of the highway can no longer breed with snails on the west side of the highway. Decades later, biologists reclassify the ancestral lineage into two new species. Which mode of speciation has occurred?
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When an action potential from a motor neuron arrives at the neuromuscular junction, a series of events occurs that leads to the contraction of the skeletal muscle cell. Which of the following events occurs last? (Hint: put these events in the correct order first, so you can easily decide which event occurs last.)
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