Topic: Senescence Difficulty: Medium

question 46

Multiple Choice

Topic: senescence
Difficulty: medium
Across a wide range of bird and mammal species, the rate of aging

• A) is positively related to the mortality rate due to extrinsic causes.
• B) is negatively related to the mortality rate due to extrinsic causes.
• C) is unrelated to the mortality rate due to extrinsic causes.
• D) increases with the latitude of species range.

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