Question 10 (2 points) Which statement DOES NOT describe an advantage of meiosis? (B.6G) O Independent assortment creates more genetic diversity Meiosis ensures daughter cells receive one allele for each gene and half the number of chromosomes Genetic variation improves due to crossing over Meiosis occurs often because it allows growth and repair of body tissues in multicellular organisms.

Which of the following statements is true? a. the main cause for speciation is an increase in gene flow. b. organisms that reproduce asexually are not considered part of a species. c. on a tree of life diagram, speciation is shown by the merging of two different lineages. d. the size of the geographic area inhabited by a population can cause speciation.

In german cockroaches, curved wing (cv) is recessive to normal wing (cv+). bill, who is raising cockroaches in his dorm room, finds that the frequency of the gene for curved wings in his cockroach population is 0.6. in his friend joe’s apartment, the frequency of the gene for curved wings is 0.2. one day joe visits bill in his dorm room, and several cockroaches jump out of joe’s hair and join the population in bill’s room. bill estimates that, now, 10% of the cockroaches in his dorm room are individual roaches that jumped out of joe’s hair. what is the new frequency of curved wings among cockroaches in bill’s room? 0.69 0.4 0.5 0.31 0.20

Living cells cannot use heat to provide the activation energy for biochemical reactions because which choice(s) complete the sentence correctly? a) answer choice ii. eliminate b) answer choices ii and iv. c) answer choice iii and iv. d) all answers can complete the sentence.