Fighting Avoidance Is Beneficial to Potential Losers Because _______________ and Beneficial

question 25

Multiple Choice

Fighting avoidance is beneficial to potential losers because _______________ and beneficial to potential winners because ______________.

• A) they can gain sexual access to females; they avoid the risk of injuries
• B) they risk injury; they risk energetic costs of engaging in a fight
• C) they break social alliances to form new ones; they avoid having to form new alliances
• D) none of the above

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Definitions:

Paired Factors

Fundamental entities in genetics that occur in pairs and determine specific characteristics or traits of an organism.

Gametes

Sexual reproduction cells that unite during fertilization to form a new organism, with sperm being the male gamete and eggs the female gamete.

Genotype

The set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait, as opposed to the physical expression of those genes which is known as the phenotype.

Phenotype

The collection of traits that can be seen in a person, which emerge from how their genetic makeup interacts with their surroundings.