Explain how the world's food supply may be affected by whether people eat primarily meat or vegetables

What will be an ideal response?


If people eat plant materials, approximately 90% more food is available to them than if they eat meat (the "10% law").

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Angiosperm-dominated tropical rainforests were very similar to the gymnosperm-dominated forests that preceded them

A. true B. false

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What statement is an application of the first law of thermodynamics?

a. The level of entropy increases as time passes. b. Living organisms represent an exception to the laws of energy. c. The quantity of energy does not increase or decrease in the universe. d. Fungi and plants do not make their own energy but derive it from somewhere else. e. The amount of energy found in the compounds on one side of an equation is equal to that on the other side.

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In the visual pathway information is sent from the photoreceptor cells in the retina directly to the

ganglion cells. Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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________ store the information necessary to produce proteins

A) Lysosomes B) Genes C) Ribosomes D) Carbohydrates

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