Bateman's Principles Quiz

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What is the primary reason environmental conditions can inhibit a male's contribution to subsequent populations?

  • Because the environment can kill its offspring (correct)
  • Because the environment can alter mating preferences
  • Because the environment reduces male aggression
  • Because the environment affects male reproductive physiology

Do random effects have an effect on the males that produce the most offspring?

  • Yes, it does
  • No, it does not (correct)
  • It depends on the specific random effects
  • Random effects only affect female reproductive success

Why are external appearances sometimes not reliable for identifying a member of a species as male or female?

  • Because sometimes males are not always the most colorful or biggest (correct)
  • Because males and females of the species look identical
  • Because external appearances change throughout the mating season
  • Because external appearances do not accurately reflect reproductive success

What is the best way to identify males and females?

<p>Size of gametes (eggs and sperm) because eggs are much bigger than sperm (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do females care the most about in males?

<p>Resources (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do males care about most in females?

<p>Males like younger females because they can produce for longer (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does intrasexual mean?

<p>Competition between members of the same sex for access to mates (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is intersexual competition?

<p>Competition between members of the same sex over a potential mate (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who typically invests more in raising offspring?

<p>Females (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the Bateman principles?

<p>Males have greater variance in number of offspring, males have greater number of mates, and there is a correlation between number of mates and number of offspring for males (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does a Bateman slope show?

<p>A relationship between a male's number of mates and number of offspring (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is sexual dimorphism?

<p>When there is a systematic difference between males and females of the same species (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Did the Byers J, and S. Dunn support Bateman's principles?

<p>Yes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What caused the variance in Bateman's slope between years?

<p>Fawn mortality (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Are sexual selection and natural selection independent processes?

<p>No, they are entangled (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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