One of the most popular hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park is the tundra trail. What effects would you expect from hundreds of people walking on this trail every day during the season?

What will be an ideal response?


Because the plants are so small, such as 50-year-old willows that are only a few inches tall, the damage done by a single careless hiker may last for many years.

Biology & Microbiology

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Exposing E. coli to calcium ions, then incubating the culture at low temperatures and finally heat

shocking the culture will accomplish:

a. artificial transformation. b. double crossing over. c. crossing over. d. constriction. e. infection.

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Two boys are on a camping trip and need birch bark to start their cooking fire. They cleanly remove a six-inch strip of bark from around the entire circumference of the trunk. Explain what eventually will happen to this tree

What will be an ideal response?

Biology & Microbiology

An energy pyramid illustrates ____

a. the first law of thermodynamics b. the diminishing of usable energy as it is transferred through an ecosystem c. that energy can be recycled d. the biological magnification of materials in an ecosystem e. the diminishing number of organisms at each trophic level

Biology & Microbiology

The HIV viral envelope protein gp120 binds to the host cell CD4 receptor.

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

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