Chapter 52: Q5TYU (page 1162)
Which statement about dispersal is false?
(A) Dispersal is a common component of the life cycles of plants and animals.
(B) Colonization of devastated areas after floods or volcanic depends on dispersal.
(C) Dispersal occurs only on an evolutionary time scale.
(D) The ability to disperse can expand the geographic distribution of a species.
Short Answer
(A) The statement 鈥淒ispersal is a common component of the life cycles of plants and animals鈥 is false.
(B) The statement 鈥淐olonization of devastated areas after floods or volcanic eruptions depends on dispersal鈥 is false.
(C) The statement 鈥淒ispersal occurs only on an evolutionary time scale鈥 is true.
(D) The statement 鈥淭he ability to disperse can expand the geographic distribution of a species鈥 is false.