Classification. The following are important terms relating to water's special properties. Answer the questions below by matching the descriptions with the most appropriate word.
A. Property of nonpolar compounds
B. Property of NaCl that enables it to dissolve in water
C. A compound that releases ions when dissolved in water
D. NaCl becomes this in solution
E. A liquid that dissolves other substances
A. hydrophobic
B. hydrophilic
C. salt
D. solute
E. solvent
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Who was known as “Darwin’s bulldog” because he was such a staunch advocate of Darwin’s evolutionary theory?
a. Thomas Malthus b. Thomas Huxley c. James Hutton
d. Charles Lyell e. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
A(n) ________________ species is a species that faces extinction in all or part of its range. A(n) ________________ species is one that is likely to become endangered in the near future. A(n) ________________ species, one that is confined to the limited area in which it evolved
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Phylogenetic methods developed by evolutionary biologists to find the best tree possible for the taxa under study are called:
a. parsimony methods. b. distance methods. c. maximum likelihood methods. d. Bayesian inference methods. e. All of the above.
The part of a body of water where light does not penetrate is the
A. pelagic division. B. limnetic zone. C. benthic division. D. profundal zone. E. littoral zone.