Every year certain parts of California have fires that sweep rapidly through the area, burning or endangering homes. What type of biome is found there, and why does it burn so frequently?

What will be an ideal response?


This biome is chaparral. The plants there are adapted to the hot, dry summers by having waxy leaves that burn easily while leaving the plants' roots unharmed.

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A) polymer. B) monomer. C) salt. D) micelle. E) lipid.

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A sequence of horizontal layers of soil is referred to as a soil ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Fine structure genetic maps of the human genome are now constructed using either restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) which are found about 1/6000 bp

or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) which are found about 1/1330 bp. Would you expect RFLPs or SNPs to be located only in the coding regions of genes or in noncoding and repetitive sequences as well? What will be an ideal response?

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