Describe the climate in the northern coniferous forest, and explain how that climate favors the type of forest found there
What will be an ideal response?
Extremely cold winters with short summers favor small-needled conifers that evaporate little water but allow the trees to photosynthesize as soon as conditions are right.
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The regeneration of ATP
a. is an example of an endergonic reaction. b. requires inorganic phosphate. c. occurs through the ATP/ADP cycle. d. is not the result of entropy. e. is/does all of these.
Crossing over
a. generally results in binary fission. b. involves nucleoli. c. involves breakages and exchanges being made between sister chromatids. d. alters the composition of chromosomes and results in new combinations of alleles being channeled into the daughter cells. e. is the same as disjunction.
The inhibition model of succession proposes that
A) early successional species modify the environment so that it becomes more suitable for later successional species. B) the first species to arrive make the site less suitable for later-arriving species. C) later successional species are neither inhibited nor aided by species of earlier stages. D) competition does not occur between early successional and late successional species.
In the U.S., the ____________________, a standardized set of thirteen STR alleles, is used to generate DNA profiles
for legal cases. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).