EBK BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
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Chapter 40, Problem 1CT
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To determine:
The reason for male guppies to become more colorful over generations.
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When researchers moved guppies from pools with cichlids that eat large guppies to pools with killifish that eat small ones, life history traits were not the only traits that changed.
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