The appearance of an animal that warns predators it is toxic, distasteful or dangerous is called as:
1. Batesian mimicry
2. Mullerian mimicry
3. aposematic coloration
4. cryptic coloration

Subtopic:  Population Interactions: Predation |

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Animals have the innate ability to escape from predation. Select the incorrect example.
1. Color change in chameleon.
2. Poison fangs in snakes.
3. Melanin in moths.
4. Enlargement of body size by swallowing air in puffer fish.

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A form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both is called:
1. Mullerian mimicry
2. Batesian mimicry
3. cryptic coloration
4. disruptive coloration

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Assertion: Parasitoidism is a strategy that is actually closer to predation.
Reason: A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host and at the host's expense, and which sooner or later kills it.

1. Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
2. Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
3. Assertion is true but reason is false.
4. Both assertion and reason are false

  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
  4. If both the assertion and reason are false
Subtopic:  Population Interactions: Predation | Population Interactions: Parasitism |
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Which one of the following is most appropriately defined:

1. Amensalism is a relationship in which one species is benefited whereas the other is unaffected
2. Predator is an organism that catches and kills other organism for food.
3. Parasite is an organism which always lives inside the body of another organism and may kill it.
4. Host is an organism which provides food to another organism.
Subtopic:  Population Interactions: Predation |
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To avoid herbivory milkweeds secret latex containing:
1. cardiac glycosides
2. stipules
3. mustard oils
4. strychnine

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