photoautotrophs (certain plants & bacteria)

What will be an ideal response?


a type of autotroph that uses sunlight and carbon from carbon dioxide to make chemical energy in the form of carbohydrates

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Select the diseases that are caused by apicomplexans.

A. Giardiasis B. Cryptosporidiosis C. Malaria D. Trypanosomiasis E. Lyme disease

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. A modern goal of systematics is to create taxa based on similarity of form and function, regardless of evolutionary relationships. 2. An assumption used for molecular clocks is that neutral mutations accumulate at a rapidly increasing rate over time between two species. 3. Alan Cooper, Cécile Mourer Chauviré, Geoffrey Chambers, Arndt von Haeseler, Allan Wilson and Svante Pääbo investigated the evolutionary relationship among some extinct and living species of flightless birds. They used tissue samples from museums and from living birds. This is an example of discovery-based science. 4. Horizontal gene transfer is thought to have been an important factor in the early evolution of the three domains.

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In criticizing ecosystem management, one of your classmates says that it is arrogant for us to think that we can manage nature. You respond that you think she probably has a(n) ______________ worldview.

A. biocentric B. anthropocentric C. expansionist D. anthropomorphic E. stewardship

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The human species first appeared in the

A) Cretaceous period. B) Permian period. C) Tertiary period. D) Quaternary period. E) Jurassic period.

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