Which organisms acquire carbon for organic molecules from other organisms and use chemical compounds as a source of energy?

A. Photoautotrophs
B. Chemoautotrophs
C. Chemoheterotrophs
D. Photoheterotrophs


C. Chemoheterotrophs

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A haploid cell has how many versions of each allele?

a. 1 b. 2 c. 4 d. 8 e. 16

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What Mendel called “factors” we now call ____

A. nucleotides B. DNA C. chromosomes D. genes E. bases

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Appraise and evaluate the following statement, and cite evidence from the chapter as appropriate: Despite having a closer "outward" appearance to plants in some ways, evidence support fungi as being far more closely related to animals than plants

What will be an ideal response?

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The model below predicts that the begging level of full offspring (F) should essentially be zero, whereas hun-gry (H) and starving (S) offspring show intermediate and high levels of begging, respectively

Under what circumstances would we expect full offspring to start begging? a. When the fitness costs of begging are higher. b. When the fitness costs of begging are lower. c. Only when the fitness costs of begging increase in a nonlinear fashion with begging level. d. Under no circumstances; the full (F) individuals are by definition at begging level zero.

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