Directions: Select the correct entry from the chart.
Male elephant seals are five to six times heavier than females of the species. The males use their
large body size to fight for control of groups of the smaller-sized females.
Fights between two male elephant seals usually last only a few minutes, with one of the males
backing off and the other establishing itself as the leader of a group of up to 100 females.
What resource are male elephant seals competing for during these conflicts?
A) Food
B) Shelter
C)Mates
D)Water

The first three phases of the cell cycle are collectively known as (1 point) play audio cellular respiration. telophase. mitosis. interphase.

Plz genetic engineering can be applied to many fields including medicine and agriculture. which of the following is a medical application of genetic engineering? a. giving crop plants recombinant dna so that they would be resistant to herbicides. b. examining a persons pedigree to determine whether they can carry a gene for a genetic disease. c. analyzing a persons dna to see how closely they are related to another person. d. certain genes into bacteria so that they will produce a needed medicine.

To answer this question, researchers studied populations of the dusky salamander (desmognathus ochrophaeus) living on different mountain ranges in the southern appalachian mountains. the researchers tested the reproductive isolation of pairs of salamander populations by leaving one male and one female together and later checking the females for the presence of sperm. four mating combinations were tested for each pair of populations (a and b)—two within the same population (female a with male a and female b with male b) and two between populations (female a with male b and female b with male a). the proportion of successful matings for each mating combination was measured. for example, when all the matings of a particular combination were successful, the researchers gave it a value of 1; when none of the matings were successful, they gave it a value of 0. then the researchers calculated an index of reproductive isolation that ranged from 0 (no isolation) to 2 (full isolation). the reproductive isolation value for two populations is the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type within populations (aa + bb) minus the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type between populations (ab + ba). the table provides data for the geographic distances and reproductive isolation values for 27 pairs of dusky salamander populations.