An Island Is on the Migration Route of Sea Birds

question 25

Multiple Choice

An island is on the migration route of sea birds.This island also has abundant tree nesting birds that live on the island permanently and are not found on any other island.The tree nesting birds are more likely than the sea birds to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium because:

• A)of high immigration in the sea bird population.
• B)the sea bird population is larger.
• C)there are fewer mutations in the sea birds.
• D)mating is random in the tree nesting birds.
• E)natural selection is stronger in the tree nesting birds.

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Definitions:

Endocytosis

Process by which a cell takes in a small amount of extracellular fluid (and its contents) by the ballooning inward of the plasma membrane.

Exocytosis

Process by which a cell expels a vesicle’s contents to extracellular fluid.

Entropy

A measure of disorder or randomness in a system, often associated with the second law of thermodynamics.

Second Law

Typically refers to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases.