LAB CH 6: FINDING AND MEASURING CHARACTERS1.Would counting the number of eggs in ovary of a female be a good character?Explain why/why not.
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2.Might the shape of a fish’s otoliths be a good character? Explain why/why not?
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3.Fish living in the cooler part of a species’ ranges often have a larger number of finrays or vertebrae than fish lining in the warmer part. How could you judge whetherthis difference was more liegely ecophenotypic (under direct environmental control)or genetically based?
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4.Give reasons why metabolic rate as measured by oxygen consumption may not be agood taxonomic character.
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5.Basically in identifying a fish, how does the criterion of capture locality differ fromthat of morphological distinctiveness?
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6.What kinds of characters are useful in identifying living fish in their naturalhabitat? Are these necessarily the same as the best characters to distinguishpreserved specimens?