Suppose You Are Building an Artificial Hot Spring in Your

question 58

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are building an artificial hot spring in your yard.The water is hot and mineral-rich,but it doesn't have the bright colors seen in natural hot springs.To get those bright colors,you could allow the growth of

• A) cyanobacteria.
• B) mycoplasmas.
• C) crenarchaeotes.
• D) proteobacteria.
• E) spirochetes.

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Definitions:

Tit-for-tat

A strategy in game theory where a player responds to an opponent's action with equivalent action, promoting cooperation by rewarding cooperation and punishing defection.

Prisoner's Dilemma

A scenario in game theory that illustrates why individuals might not cooperate, even when it seems that doing so would be in their collective best interest.

Zero-sum Game

A situation in competitive theory where one party's gain is exactly balanced by the losses of others. In a zero-sum game, the total benefit to all players in the game, for every combination of strategies, always adds up to zero.

Non-zero-sum Game

A scenario in game theory where the sum of outcomes for all players does not equal zero, allowing for mutual benefit or loss.