A visitor to an American tropical forest will probably never get to see a jaguar, the largest native cat species in the Americas, but will see many plant-eating monkeys. Use your knowledge of energy pyramids to explain the rarity of the predatory cats

What will be an ideal response?


There should normally be fewer predators (and less biomass) at the secondary (or higher) consumer level than at the primary level.

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A) Epstein-Barr virus B) measles virus C) mumps virus D) rabies virus

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Hydrogen ions (H+) are _____

a. indicated by a pH scale c. in blood b. unbound protons d. all of these

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Nitrogen is made available to legumes because of a symbiotic relationship between the plant and 

A. a virus. B. bacteria. C. fungi. D. protozoa.

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In which of the following ways are archaea similar to eukaryotic cells?

a. size
b. shape
c. presence of histones
d. DNA polymerases
e. presence of operons

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