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71.
Which of the following pairs is a result of convergent evolution?
  1. A turtle's egg and a frog's egg.
  2. A bird's wing and a bat's wing.
  3. A housefly's leg and a bee's leg.
  4. A human hand and a monkey hand.
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72.
The original source of variation in a genome is:
  1. Independent assortment.
  2. Recombination.
  3. Crossing over.
  4. Mutation.
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73.
The existence of which of the following situations in a natural population would violate the assumptions of a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium condition?
  1. Variable environment conditions.
  2. Sexual selection.
  3. High level of phenotypic diversity.
  4. Large population size.
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74.
A plant species that is widely distributed on a continent is separated into an eastern and a western population during an ice age. By the time the glaciers retreat, the two populations are morphologically distinct from each other. This is an example of the effect of:
  1. Character displacement.
  2. Punctuated equilibrium.
  3. Adaptive radiation.
  4. Geographical isolation.
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75.
Shifting from the five-kingdom taxonomic scheme to the three-domain scheme by biologists included the:
  1. Splitting of the prokaryote kingdom into two prokaryote domains.
  2. Merging of the prokaryote kingdom with the protista into a domain.
  3. Separating of the autotroph kingdom into two different domains.
  4. Grouping of unicellular organisms in different kingdoms into one domain.
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