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1
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A model with the lowest Akaike’s Information Criterion score has

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Similar levels of support to other models with AIC scores less than 2

2
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In the 1930s, red foxes arrived in the south-west of Australia and were reported to kill more prey than they need to satiate their dietary requirements. What is this behaviour known as?

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Surplus killing

3
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Which of these species travels frequently by brachiation?

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Gibbon

4
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Who is Przewalski’s horse Equus ferus named after?

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Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839-1888)

5
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How many pairs of chromosomes does the average human possess in their body cells?

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23

6
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How many bison (Bison bison) are estimated to have roamed North America in the 19th Century?

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60 million

7
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Where are the world’s tallest elephants found - standing up to 4.21 m?

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Damaraland, Namibia

8
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The latitudinal diversity gradient suggests species richness is likely to be highest where?

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Equator

9
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Gould’s mouse Pseudomys gouldii was abundant in Australia prior to European settlement, afterwhich cats, rats and habitat alteration drove them extinct by 1857. Who was it named for?

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Elizabeth Gould

10
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A species that increases or decreases the diversity of a system is a

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Keystone species

11
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Modern scientific classification dates back to the 18th Century pubication of Systema Naturae by Swedish botanist and explorer

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Carl Linnaeus

12
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An individual with two different alleles at a given locus is considered

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Heterozygous

13
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Combination of an ecosystem state and environmental condition that persists and to which the system returns following perturbations is known as

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Stable equilibrium

14
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The retention of juvenile characteristics in an adult is

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Neotony

15
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What acronym is used to describe the effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests?

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REDD

16
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A root growing from a branch of a fig is known as what?

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Adventitious root

17
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The assumption that objects directly on the survey line are always detected is important to

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Distance sampling

18
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The tendancy of plants to grow towards the sun is

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Phototropism

19
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At 3.96 m high, 10.6 m long and 12.24 tons, with a forefoot circumference of 1.8 m, where was the largest elephant ever shot recorded?

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Mucusso, Angola

20
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Benefits people obtain from ecosystems including provisioning, regulation, support and cultural services are:

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Ecosystem services