If the Pattern Seen in Daphnia Is Representative of Other

question 130

Multiple Choice

If the pattern seen in Daphnia is representative of other species that combine both sexual and asexual reproduction, we would expect asexual reproduction in other species to be MOST common:

• A)when environmental conditions are favorable for that species.
• B)when environmental conditions are unfavorable for that species.
• C)in the summer.
• D)in the winter.
• E)in the fall.

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Definitions:

Skew

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, indicating how much a distribution is shifted or skewed to one side.

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A value below which a certain percent of observations fall, used in ranking data within a data set.