Thomas Park's Studies of Flour Beetles and Their Protozoan Parasite

question 37

Multiple Choice

Thomas Park's studies of flour beetles and their protozoan parasite best exemplified the principle that

• A) parasites can alter the outcomes of competitive interactions between species.
• B) there are costs to both host defenses and parasite counterdefenses.
• C) selection can favor a diversity of host and parasite genotypes.
• D) parasites can drive host populations to extinction.

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