Describe the general flow of energy through an ecosystem beginning with the Sun and going through a third order consumer.

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Answer 1

Answer:

1) Autotrophs transform solar energy into chemical energy.

2) Herbivores and omnivores (primary consumers) eat producers, make use of some of the energy, making from it their biomass.

3) Following, carnivores or predators (secondary, tertiary, and other consumers) eat herbivores, using only 10% of the flowing energy.

4) Decomposers (last order in the chain) recycle all the dead organic material and make use of some of the stored energy.  

Explanation:

Energy flow: From the whole quantity of energy that reaches the earth's surface, only 0.1 or 1% is absorbed by autotroph organisms or producers.  

From this input of solar energy, it begins a unidirectional energy flow through all the organisms in the ecosystem, from autotrophs to heterotrophs, until it is finally dissipated in the environment.  

Organisms that can use light, and turn it into organic matter according to their own needs are producers, and they are called autotrophic organisms. These organisms are by excellence all plants, algae, and bacteria that photosynthesize. Organisms that are incapable of producing their food are called heterotrophic. They depend on other organisms from the trophic chain such as plants or other animals to feed on, so they can get proteins and energy.  In the trophic web, heterotrophic organisms occupy the first, second, or third consumer level, after producers.  There are different types of heterotrophic animals: carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous, hematophagous, ichthyophagous, and etcetera. All of them depend on autotrophic organisms.

At each trophic level, it occurs an energy transfer from one level to the next, with only 10% being usable in each of them. This assessment is called "The 10% rule". This is, as a general rule, only about 10% of the energy stored as biomass at one trophic level, per unit time, ends up as biomass at the next trophic level, in the same unit of time.

The progressive reduction of energy determines the number of trophic levels in the chain (4 or 5).  

1) Autotrophs use water, CO2, and solar energy to produce O2 and glucose, by the process of photosynthesis and convert it into biomass. Producers transform solar energy into chemical energy.

2) Herbivores and omnivores (primary consumers) make use of some of this energy to survive, making from it their biomass. The rest of the energy is lost.

3) Following, carnivores or predators (secondary, tertiary, and other consumers) eat herbivores, using only 10% of the flowing energy. The rest of the energy is lost.

4) When different organisms die, decomposers (last order in the chain) recycle all the organic material and make use of some of the energy stored in their tissues. The rest is lost.


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A. it absorbs blue & yellow wavelengths which make green
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B. It reflects green wavelengths of light

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Describe the Cell Cycle [Interphase, G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase]

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Explanation:

Interphase is composed of G1 phase (cell growth), followed by S phase (DNA synthesis), followed by G2 pahse (cellgrowth). At the end of interphase comes the mitotic phase, which is made up of mitosis and cytokinesis.

Identify and describe the three ways the mutations affect organisms

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Answer:

they may cause the development of a disease-causing allele

they may cause the development of a more beneficial allele

they, in some cases, may have no noticeable affect.

Explanation:

Answer:

Mutations may be beneficial, harmful, or neutral to organisms. If the change caused by a mutation is useful to the organism, then it is beneficial. If the change is damaging to an organism, then it is harmful. If the change is neither useful nor damaging, then the mutation is neutral.

Explanation:

You wake up and unplug your cellphone from the wall socket. A cell phone, while charging, uses 2.6 watts/hour. Assume it charged overnight (8 hours).

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20.8 watts of electricity
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investigate the conditions required for seed to germinate. keep the dishes at room temperature for a week.explain your observations
Dry cotton wool
wet cotton wool
covered with water

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Explanation:

Starting off, the conditions required for a seed to germinate are:

warm temperatures, so that enzymes can act efficiently.water, for chemical reactions to place.oxygen, for respiration.

Observations:

Dry cotton wool: Seeds placed here will not germinate. They will not show any changes since not all the the conditions are met. (There's no water)

Wet cotton wool: Seeds placed here will germinate since all the conditions required for germinations to take place are met.

Covered with water: The seeds will gradually start to expand. The oxygen which is dissolved in water does not enter the seed due to excess water thus preventing germination.

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it’s transferring by how much heat is on the pan and how the pan has more heat than on the cup

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Answer:

still 9 and 11. No operations are happening

Explanation:

Why are genetic variation and selective breeding are advantages of sexual reproduction?

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The evolution of sexual reproduction is a great puzzle in modern evolutionary biology. Many groups of eukaryotic organisms, especially most animals and plants, reproduce sexually. The evolution of sex between two organisms of the same species contains two related but different themes: its origin and its maintenance. However, since hypotheses for the origin of sex are difficult to test experimentally, most of the current work has focused on the maintenance of sexual reproduction. Biologists, including W. D. Hamilton, Alexei Kondrashov, and George C. Williams, have proposed various explanations for how sexual reproduction is maintained in a large set of different living things.

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When chromosomes fail to segregate during meiosis, non-disjunction occurs when gametes with an irregular number of chromosomes are produced when this occurs.

Jill is blood Type O. She has two older brothers (who tease her like crazy) with blood types A & B. What are the genotypes of her parents with respect to this trait?

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Answer:

There you have it.  Jill's parents are IAi & IB

Explanation:

one brother: Type B, one of the parents must have the IB allele

other brother: Type A,

other  parent must have the IA allele & have a genotype of IAi.

Jill's parents are IAi & IB

Jill's parents have the genotypes IAi and IBi.

What is blood type?

Blood type refers to the classification of blood based on the presence or absence of certain antigens on the surface of red blood cells. The most common system used for classifying blood types is the ABO system, which has four types: A, B, AB, and O.

If Jill's blood type is O, then she inherited an O allele from each of her parents. Since her two older brothers have blood types A and B, we can conclude that her parents are both heterozygous for the A and B alleles (IAi and IBi). This means that each parent contributed an i allele to Jill, resulting in her blood type O.

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True or False: If a dominant allele is present, the recessive trait will not be expressed

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Answer:

True

Explanation:

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name.
3 A. Cell Wall
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D. Endoplasmic Reticulum
F. Nucleus
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3.A.Cell wall is 3 this is the layer that surrounds the cell

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9g The layer that surrounds the nucleus

1.I the colloid inside the cell

4.b. The layer under the cell wall

5.d the system of tubes inside the cytoplasm

f.6 the component that contains the genetic material

5.h the organelle where water is stored

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Answer I think male and 23 chromosomes

who invented microscope

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Answer:

A Dutch father-son team named Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented the first so-called compound microscope in the late 16th century when they discovered that, if they put a lens at the top and bottom of a tube and looked through it, objects on the other end became magnified.

Explanation:

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People with diabetes need to take insulin to help process the sugar, or they can't use it and it stays in their blood. The insulin allows sugar into the cell to be used, which is why diabetics need to take insulin. Insulin is usually prescribed by a medical professional.

Choose all the answers that apply.
DNA_
controls the physical traits of an organism
is only found in eukaryotes
can control certain organism behavior
determines the sequence of amino acids in proteins
is found in the nucleus of prokaryotes
is a long, single chain of paired nucleotides

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A) controls the physical traits of an organism
E) is found in the nucleus of prokaryotes
F) is a long, single chain of paired nucleotides

Answer:

1st, 2nd, 6th are the correct answers!

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Answer:

Iron(II) sulfide or ferrous sulfide (Br. E. sulphide) is one of a family chemical compounds and minerals with the approximate formula FeS. Iron sulfides are often iron-deficient non-stoichiometric. All are black, water-insoluble solids.

The process of meiosis is most closely associated with

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Answer:

Sexual reproduction.

Explanation:

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which statement is true of y chromosomes
a. only men have them
b. all babies have them
c. only women have them
d women have two of them

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Answer:

A. Only men have them

Explanation:

Men's DNA code is XY

Woman's is XX

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Which process does an organism use to move LARGE molecules out of a
cell? *

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Answer:

Exocytosis

Explanation:

Exocytosis definition and purposes. Exocytosis is the process by which cells move materials from within the cell into the extracellular fluid. Exocytosis occurs when a vesicle fuses with the plasma membrane, allowing its contents to be released outside the cell.

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Cellular differentiation is the process in which a cell changes from one cell type to another. Usually, the cell changes to a more specialized type. Differentiation occurs numerous times during the development of a multicellular organism as it changes from a simple zygote to a complex system of tissues and cell types. So I believe the answer you are looking for would be the third one :)

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If i added 27 grams of salt to water and saparated the solution with a hot plate what amount of salt will be left behind

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Answer:

27 grams

Explanation:

27 grams of salt would still be left behind.

The dissolution of salt in water is a physical reaction and the salt can be recovered by evaporating off the water using appropriate procedures.

Provided that no part of the salt/water mixture is lost during the process of evaporation, if 27 grams of salt was dissolved initially, the same amount of salt would be recovered at the end of the separation process.

what are the tools they used for organ donation​

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Answer: Organ transplantation is a surgical procedure which involves the transfer of organ from donor to receiver.

Explanation:

The organ transplantation require various medical tools:

Cutting and dissecting instruments:  Scalpels, and scissors to cut the organ from its site of origin.

Holding instruments:  Forceps and clamps are used to handle the organs while cutting them from their original site and placing them in another location.

Homeostatic instruments: Artery forceps to stop the cessation of blood from blood capillaries when an organ is cutted from its place.

Write the electronic configuration of any one pair of isotopes and isobars.

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Answer:

Isotopes of carbon:(_16^12)C    and (_16^13)C12

6C and 13

6C Electronic configuration is 2,4 because both the

atoms have the same atomic number and the same number of electrons as 6.

Isobars:

(_20^40)Ca   - 2,8,8,2 as atomic number is 20 and 40

(_80^40)Ar- 2,8,8 as atomic number is 18

Explanation:

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_____ is the sum of all potential and kinetic energy.

Group of answer choices

Law of Conservation of Energy

Gravitational Potential Energy

Stored energy

Mechanical Energy

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Answer:

Mechanical Energy

Explanation:

In physics,  "mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy."

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Normally organisms undergo _____ to make usable energy from glucose in the presence of oxygen. However, ____ allows some organisms to generate energy in areas where there is no oxygen.

1. Anaerobic respiration, Aerobic Respiration
2. Anaerobic Respiration, Photorespiration
3. Photosynthesis, Glycolysis
4. Aerobic Respiration, Anaerobic Respiration

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Answer:

4

Explanation:

aerobic respiration is respiration in the presence of oxygen and anaerobic respiration is repiration wirhout the presence of oxygen.

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the systolic and diastolic pressure is respectively are:-

a) 120 and 80 mm of Hg
b) 80mm and 120 mm of Hg
c) 120 and 120 mm of Hg
d) 80 and 80mm of Hg​

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Answer:

A

Explanation:

Systolic pressure is the maximum blood pressure during contraction of the ventricles; diastolic pressure is the minimum pressure recorded just prior to the next contraction. The blood pressure is usually written as the systolic pressure over the diastolic pressure

120 (systolic) and 80 (diastolic) mm of Hg as it is the normal blood pressure
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