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For fill-in questions, the answer will be just one or a few words long.  Canvas automatically grades these questions, and is only marked correct if you spell your answer exactly as I entered it in the answer key (even extra spaces or punctuation is accounted for).  Spelling biological terms correctly is important (yes, spelling counts in this course), but if Canvas marks your answer wrong because of a minor spelling error or punctuation difference don’t fret because I check every answer that has been marked wrong by Canvas and award credit when the answer is correct.   FILL-IN: The term ___ is defined as the number of surviving, fertile offspring produced by an individual.  Spell carefully.

The fact that all seven of the garden pea traits studied by Mendel obeyed the principle of independent assortment means that:

Land masses and bodies of water closer to the ______________________  absorb more heat energy from the sun because of the curvature of the earth.

Which of the following is a form of ecological degradation due to pollution?

An ecologist monitoring the number of gorillas in a wildlife refuge over a five-year period is studying ecology at which level?

What is the heading used to indicate your introduction in an APA manuscript?

Community resistance refers to ________.

In the case study of the Bornean orangutan, what was the primary reason for the species critically endangered status?

Which of the following statements is false regarding wildlife corridors?

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