At Thanksgiving, your friend laments about having to eat Brussels sprouts. "I hate Brussels sprouts. I wish humans had never caused Brussels sprouts to evolve!" Based on your knowledge of biology, you know that humans caused the evolution of Brussels sprouts through the mechanism of uniformitarianism.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
Through artificial selection, farmers have been able to create many types of vegetables including Brussels sprouts.
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A. Cyanobacteria B. spirochaetes C. Proteobacteria D. Staphylococcus E. Actinobacteria
When one species actively prevents another from accessing a resource, it is called:
a. interference competition b. exploitative competition c. scavenging d. interspecific competition e. predation
Your microwave will not turn on, and you speculate that a circuit breaker in the house has been tripped. In scientific terminology, the steps you would take to figure this out would be described as
A. testing a prediction generated from a hypothesis. B. forming conclusions from the results of experiments. C. developing a hypothesis based on an observation. D. developing an observation based on a hypothesis.
Please match the cell types with the statements that most accurately describe them to test your understanding of prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, and viruses.
Contains ribosomes and enzymes A) Prokaryotic cells B) Eukaryotic cells C) Viruses D) Both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells E) Prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells and viruses