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Use the following information then provide your answers to the following questions. You may use your iPad and reference the appropriate pages in the POH for this question. You are flying the UND Piper Archer. Cruise Altitude: 4500ft Temperature at Cruise Altitude: 16°C Power setting: 75% What is the appropriate RPM setting? [BLANK-1] What is the calculated TAS? [BLANK-2]

This question is regarding the weight shift equation. You may use your iPad for this question to reference the POH if you choose to do so. Assume your takeoff weight is: 2266.20 lbs and your takeoff CG is: 88.51. You decide to bring with you an observer that weighs 160 lbs (rear seat). Use the appropriate weight shift equation and recalculate the new takeoff weight and balance. What is the new takeoff weight? [BLANK-1] What is the new CG? [BLANK-2]

Most Swiss starlings (birds) produce four to five eggs in each clutch. Starlings producing fewer or more than this have reduced fitness. Which of the following terms best describes this pattern?

Which of the following is most likely?  An insect that is resistant to a pesticide (a chemical that kills insect pests):

The Hawaiian archipelago (collection of islands) is way out in the Pacific Ocean.  This chain of islands was created by a volcanic “hotspot” that formed each island over many millions of years.  Soon after the newest island of Hawaii (“the big island”) rose above the sea surface (somewhat less than 1 million years ago) and organisms colonized the island, the evolution of life on this new island should have been most strongly influenced by:

Male peacocks have an extravagant (fancy) train of tail feathers, whereas female peahens lack this trait. This difference between the males and females of this species is referred to as ________.

Cotton-topped tamarins are small primates with tufts of long white hair on their heads. While studying these animals, you notice that males with longer hair get more opportunities to mate and father more offspring. To test the hypothesis that having longer hair is adaptive in these males, you should FIRST ________.

In a small population of alpine foxes, you observe increased ear length over a 10-year period. Can you definitively conclude that increase in ear length is advantageous in this population?

Large male horned dung beetles, Onthophagus taurus, use their horns as weapons in fights with rival males over ownership of breeding tunnels containing females. Females excavate (dig) tunnels beneath fresh dung (manure) piles where they mate with the males, and then lay their eggs. The use of the horns by the males in contest for the breeding tunnels is an example of: I:   intersexual selectionII:  intrasexual selectionIII: sexual selection

Darwin and Wallace’s theory of evolution by natural selection was revolutionary because it: