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Q1.

The following plots represent the body size distributions of a fruit fly population. Dashed lines represent the ancestral distributions and continuous lines represent the distributions after a few generations. If the larger individuals have better survival as well as higher reproductive rates, which diagram below best represents the expected change in the distribution of body size (X-axis represents body size while Y-axis represents frequency)?

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(B)
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Q2.

A population of finch birds with medium sized beaks colonizes an island with plants producing medium and large sized seeds. After a disease wipes out all the plants with medium sized seeds, what is most likely to happen to the finches?

(A)
They will become extinct.
(B)
Their beaks will not change at all.
(C)
Their beaks become smaller.
(D)
Their beaks will become larger.
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