During the industrial revolution, the dark peppered moth had an advantage because it a) was larger and hardier. b) reproduced easily and quickly. c) was poisonous to many of its predators. d) blended in with the soot from the factories.

Which statement describes the punctuated equilibrium theory?

Some species of wasps are social. the queen starts a colony from scratch each spring. she builds a small nest, and lays and raises a group of female workers. the workers enlarge the nest while the queen continues to lay eggs. unfertilized eggs become males that mate with newly hatched females. all of the wasps except the newly fertilized females die by the summer. which best describes this behavior? a)it is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs. b)it is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized. c)it is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members. d)it is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.

What is a population? a. all the members of the same species living in the same ecosystem at the same time b. the number of a species living in the same ecosystem over a period of time c. the total number of organisms living in an ecosystem at a point in time d. all the members of a food web in the same ecosystem