In this assignment, you will use simulations to analyze how climate, resources, and habitat size affect
carrying capacity. You will then look at another simulation to analyze the effects of certain factors that
affect biodiversity and populations. Finally, you will write and revise a conclusion on how human activity
affects biodiversity.
Background Information
Population growth is the change in size of a group of organisms of the same species over time. It is
affected by four factors: birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration.
Carrying capacity is the maximum total population that an area can support. Carrying capacity limits
population growth and is affected by competition for food, water, shelter, or mates, and threat of
predators, disease, and parasites. Carrying capacity may be affected by one or a combination of these
factors.
Biodiversity is the total variety of organisms that live in the biosphere. Biodiversity is affected by the loss
of habitat, introduction of invasive species, pollution, and/or human activities.

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Answer 1

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Larger habitats support populations with higher carrying capacities. Higher quality habitats support populations with higher carrying capacities. There is no difference in population growth rate between large and small habitats. Some major threats to biodiversity are: Habitat destruction/Deforestation, Introduced and invasive species, Genetic pollution, Over exploitation, Hybridization, Climate change, Diseases, Human overpopulation. If abiotic or biotic factors change, the carrying capacity changes as well. Natural disasters can destroy resources in an ecosystem. If resources are destroyed, the ecosystem will not be able to support a large population. This causes the carrying capacity to decrease.  

Carrying capacity could be reduced if each individual within the species consumed less from the environment. Think about humans: if every human needs a four car garage and a large house, the planet can sustain fewer humans than if each human lived in a studio apartment and traveled using a bicycle. It would take 1.75 Earths to sustain our current population. If current trends continue, we will reach 3 Earths by the year 2050. It is beyond dispute that the modern industrial world has been able to temporarily expand Earth's carrying capacity for our species. As Nordhaus points out, population has grown dramatically (from less than a billion in 1800 to 7.6 billion today), and so has per capita consumption. Historically, habitat and land use change have had the biggest impact on biodiversity in all ecosystems, but climate change and pollution are projected to increasingly affect all aspects of biodiversity. Sustainable agriculture practices support integrating biodiversity in various ways including in terms of diversity of crops, traditional agriculture techniques to control pests and increase productivity as well as ensuring that farmed land is made up of a diverse mix of grazing land, crop land, orchards, wetlands and more.

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How can we reduce the Disadvantages of Human-made Materials?​

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A way we can reduce disadvantages of human made materials is simply by finding new uses for them such as when plastic is molded and used for a container of a liquid.

Conservation biologists breed some endangered species like the panda bear in captivity. Which is the most likely reason that panda populations in the wild are still threatened?

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Answer:

Due to unfavourable environmental conditions.

Explanation:

The panda populations in the wild are still threatened because of unfavourable environmental conditions to the survival of panda. The panda become endangered species due to unfavourable and bad environment of the surrounding which occurs because of the human activities. Destruction of habitat is the main reason which is responsible for the decrease occur in the population of panda so we can say that the surrounding unfavourable environment still threatened the panda in the wild.

what makes us also different

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People differ in so many ways; in their genetic make-up, sociocultural backgrounds, attitudes, the way they speak, listen, learn, behave, act and react. However, everyone is blessed, unique and important.

Why might the shape of a sickled red blood cell prevent the cell from doing its job? Hint: Think about the function(job) of the red blood cell Use the following Sentence starter: The shape of the sickled red blood cell would prevent the cell from doing its job because_________. *

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Answer:

Normally, the flexible, round red blood cells move easily through blood vessels. In sickle cell anemia, the red blood are shaped like sickles or crescent moons. These rigid, sticky cells can get stuck in small blood vessels, which can slow or block blood flow and oxygen to parts of the body.

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Answer:

These rigid, sticky cells can get stuck in small blood vessels, which can slow or block blood flow and oxygen to parts of the body.

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How many cells do you end up with in Meiosis?


A) 2


B) 1


C) 3


D) 4

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Answer:

During meiosis , four daugther cells are produced

Answer:

4 cells. You end up with four cells.

Explanation:

Each daughter cell undergoes meiosis-II, producing two cells. In meiosis-II the separation of two chromatids occur so that equal number of chromatids (in fact chromosome due to duplication of genetic material) goes to each of the daughter cell.

Thus, at the end of meiosis-II, four daughter cells are formed. Each cell has half the number of chromosomes present in the diploid cell.

In the northern hemisphere, in what direction do the planetary wind belts shift towards in the winter?

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Answer:

the wind belts would usaully shift counter clockwise in the norther hemishphere.

Explanation:

this is because the earth rotates making the coriolis effect

The thin, yellowish milk secreted in the few days right after birth is rich in antibodies and immune system cells. Group of answer choices True False

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Answer: The statement is TRUE.

Explanation:

The thin, yellowish milk which may appear at any time from late pregnancy to few days right after birth is known as Colostrum milk.

During pregnancy, progesterone and oestrogen cause the milk glands to develop in the mother's breast. Immediately after birth, the anterior lobe of the pituitary releases a hormone, prolactin, which stimulates milk production. When the baby suckles at the mother's nipples, the milk flows out.

This first yellowish milk known as colostrum, contains all the essential nutrients that a newly born baby needs. It also provides antibodies and immune cells that protect the infant from disease. The milk is rich in protein and fats than normal milk. It is the first immune system defense they receive after birth. Therefore the above statement about the first thin yellowish milk is TRUE.

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1.In 1973, biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote an essay titled “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” Why is evolution so important for understanding biology? Explain your answer in 1–2 sentences.(2 points)

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Answer:

The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive

which of the following would result in the most diverse offspring​

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Where are the answers?
I don’t see any options

Nonvascular plants have never evolved to the size of vascular plants, most likely because they lack Select one: a. a photosynthetic mechanism. b. an efficient mode of respiration. c. an efficient system for conducting water and minerals. d. nutrient and water absorption mechanisms. e. They lack all of these choices.

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Answer:

The correct answer is c. an efficient system for conducting water and minerals.

Explanation:

Non-vascular plants lack the internal tubes or vessels that carry water and minerals or nutrients through the entire plant. Most of them are found in humid or submerged places, since this type of environment allows them to absorb water through the surface of their tissues. Non-vascular plants do not grow very tall due to the lack of structures normally associated with vascular plants. Non-vascular plants lack specialized vascular tissue (xylem and phloem) for conduction and internal support of water and food. Metabolites and other nutrients are transferred between and within cells by osmosis, diffusion, and cytoplasmic flow.

Question 9 (2 points)
The four major biogeochemical cycles are the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the
____ and the _____. Fill in the blanks

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Answer:

Nitrogen and the Oxygen cycle :)

Explanation:

Nitrogen cycle and the oxygen cycle

What is the function of RNA in a cell?

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Answer:

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins.

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Explanation:

Answer:

The primary functions of RNA are as follows:

Facilitate the translation of DNA into proteins

Functions as an adapter molecule in protein synthesis

Serves as a messenger between the DNA and the ribosomes.

They are the carrier of genetic information in all living cells

Promotes the ribosomes to choose the right amino acid which is required in building up of new proteins in the body.

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Human impact on environment daily which of the following correctly identifies the type of impact that humans have on the environment

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Answer:

humans have a negative impact on the environment

Explanation:

This is because everyday humans overuse earth's resources and realsense lots of harmful gasses in the atmosphere

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Select the correct answer.Which method of testing substances is a sure way to identify a chemical reaction? *

A. change in color
B. Change in density

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actually it should be a formation of bubbles that identifies a chemical reaction.

Answer:

it's B

Explanation:

We can conclude that method of testing substances is a sure way to identify a chemical reaction formation of bubbles.

The typical (diploid) cells of the body have 46 chromosomes; how many
chromosomes does each gamete have?
46
23
184
46 pairs

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Answer:

if a person has 45 chromosomes they will get down syndrome

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which organisms would be the prey for the hawk?

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Shrew, snake, and Insect-eating Bird

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Dakota lives in New Orleans. He knows that scientists have predicted some changes on Earth due to global warming, and he is concerned it will affect his city.

What effects are scientists concerned about in relation to global warming? Choose the two that apply.
A. decreases in temperatures
B. melting of sea ice
C. decreasing sea levels
D. decreases of greenhouse gas concentrations
E. increase in carbon dioxide from melting permafrost

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It’s B and E because I am right

Melting of sea ice and increase in carbon dioxide from melting frozen grounds are effects scientists concern about in relation to global warming. Therefore, option (B) and (E) are correct.

What is global warming?

Long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns are referred to as climate change. Although these changes may be natural, human actions have been the primary cause of climate change since the 1800s, mostly as a result of the burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and gas), which results in the production of heat-trapping gases.

Sea ice loss will expose the cold, dark Arctic water, which will absorb heat instead of reflecting it, accelerating the rate of global warming. Additionally, it will disrupt the ecology of the area, hurting everything from algae to sizable creatures like polar bears and seals that depend on the sea ice for hunting.

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Tibetans' physiological adaptations make them less likely to suffer from (1 point)
O blood clots.
O altitude sickness.
O pulmonary hypertension (or high blood pressure).
O heart attacks.

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Answer:

1. More efficient hemoglobin in the blood

2. Altitude sickness*

3. Hotter temperatures during the summer months...

4. Lower oxygen levels.

5. The positive effects outweigh the negative effects in certain environments.

Explanation:

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Tibetans' physiological adaptations make them less likely to suffer from pulmonary hypertension (or high blood pressure). So, the correct option is C.

What do you mean by Adaptations?

Adaptations may be defined as the evolutionary process where an organism becomes better suited to its habitat, in order to survive and reproduce in it.

Tibetans are adapted to high altitudes by producing fewer red blood cells. They have greater hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory responsiveness. They have large lungs, and greater lung diffusing capacity. This leads them less likely to suffer from pulmonary hypertension.

Therefore, Tibetans' physiological adaptations make them less likely to suffer from pulmonary hypertension (or high blood pressure).

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Our cells have many working parts that help the cell to survive and carry out its function. Which organelle releases energy in the cell necessary for all metabolic activities?

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Answer:

Mitochondria

Explanation:

The mitochondria produce ATP, also known as energy. It is coined the power house cell.

mitochondria is the answer

The industrial revolution did not affect ?

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Answer:

English settlement of the new world was not an effect of the industrial revolution.

Explanation:

English settlement came into being before 100 years of the industrial revolution and it was an outcome of the consequences of mercantilism as the most prevailing economic model in the Europe establishment.

Answer:

Explanation:

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Which sentence in the passage describes the benefits of sexual reproduction?
Match each step of the scientific method with its description.

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Answer:

Asexual

Explanation:

Either an animal can be either asexual, or just sexual. Like an iguana theyre asexal which means they can bw bkth female/male.

Comprehensive detail and links between structure and functions of cells and different tissue in animals

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The main diffrence between their tissue is

1.Plant structure is different from the animal skeletal structure. A plant tissue is different from those in animals. Plant tissues are basically divided into two: Meristematic tissue and Permanent tissue.

Meristematic tissue: These tissues comprise of cells which have the dividing capacity. They are immature and help plants to divide continuously throughout the life. Depending on the site of location, it is of three types. Apical, lateral and intercalary meristems. These meristems enlarge the cell and increase the length and width of the stem, roots and leaves.

Permanent tissue: Permanent tissues are derivative of meristematic tissue. They don’t have the dividing capability but aid in other functions like conduction of substances, storage of food etc. Two types of permanent tissues are found in plants i.e. simple and complex permanent tissue. Simple permanent tissues include parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma while complex tissues are xylem and phloem.

Animal body is made of four different types of tissues.

Epithelial Tissue

Muscle Tissue

Connective Tissue

Nerve Tissue

Epithelial Tissue: All organs in the body are lined with a group of tissues called epithelial tissues. They cover the surface of all internal as well as external organs. There are four types of epithelial tissues: Squamous epithelium, Stratified epithelium, Cuboidal epithelium and Columnar epithelium. They may be cuboidal, columnar or even flat. The main functions of these tissues involve protection, secretion, absorption, sensation etc..

Muscle Tissue: This type of tissue forms three types of muscles, namely skeletal (striated or voluntary) muscle, smooth (unstriated or involuntary) muscle and cardiac (heart) muscle. They help in movement by contraction and relaxation of muscles.

Connective Tissue: As the name suggests, they connect the different tissues, organs and parts of the body. Different types of connective tissues are Areolar tissue, Adipose tissue (fat), Blood, Lymph, Bone and Cartilage. They connect and support organs and also transport substances between organs.

Nervous Tissue: These tissues are made up of specialised cells called nerve cells (neurons). They conduct and transmit electrochemical impulses between neurons.

Which of the following might be affected by the loss of a plant species?
a. Only organisms that feed directly off the lost plant species will be affected.
Other plant species will be affected, but no other organisms will.
Multiple organisms may be affected by the loss of a plant species.
d. No other organisms would be affected.
Please select the best answer from the choices provided
ОА
OB
ОС
OD

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About how much saliva is produced by the salivary glands every day?

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A quart, I really hope this has helped

Briefly explain why DNA replication is semiconservative and discontinuous. Make sure to name the proteins involved in the synthesis of DNA, synthesis of RNA, the removal of RNA and the sealing of the nicks.

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Answer:

DNA replication is semiconservative: each new strand has a strand of the parent DNA and another strand of new synthesis. DNA synthesis is discontinuous, since one of the strands, the lagging strand, replicates intermittently within the replication bubble, while the leading strand replicates continuously. For replication, apart from DNA polymerases,  requires the action of enzymes that synthesize the primer, DNA ligases, enzymes that are responsible for joining pieces formed of chains, etc. RNA is synthesized through a process called transcription in making a complementary copy of a piece of DNA.

Explanation:

Replication is discontinuous since one of the strands, the lagging strand, replicates intermittently within the replication bubble, while the leading strand replicates continuously. It is bi-directional, because the strand is copied in both directions, and depending on the point of origin and the way it is viewed, a strand can be either discontinuous or continuous. Finally, replication is said to be semi-conservative since the original strands are part of each of the double strands resulting from replication.The unwinding of the DNA and the maintenance of the two separate strands in the replication fork so that the two new strands can be synthesized requires the action of proteins: Gyrase allows the release of the torque tension of the DNA double strand while the helicase separates the strands, allowing the action of DNA polymerases, which are responsible for the inclusion of new nucleotides as the DNA model strand is copied. Finally, the primases allow the incorporation of leader sequences at the beginning of the replication forks, allowing the action of DNA polymerases. DNA ligases seal cuts or nicks (broken phosphodiester bonds). DNA ligase also splices the ends of DNA into duplex regions. Transcription consists of the synthesis of RNA taking DNA as a template and means the passage of the information contained in DNA to RNA. The transfer of information from DNA to RNA is carried out following the complementary rules of the nitrogenous bases. When the entire strand has been copied, at the end of the process, the RNA chain is free and the DNA is closed again, by pairing of its complementary chains.

Explain how demagnetizing a magnet (or temporary magnet) affects the domains.

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Answer:

So, heating a magnet disrupts the domain walls and it becomes easy for the magnetic domains, which are ordinarily lined up, to rotate and become misaligned. They are now less aligned and point in the opposite direction to their neighbors, causing a decrease in the magnetic field and loss of magnetism.

Without variation, all the members of a species would have the same
traits?
True or false

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Answer:

Yes

Explanation:

If there is no variation, then they won't be change in species. Meaning that the species won't change traits.

10
il. List down 5 simple ways you can do to conserve Earth's resources,
Need answer now please
No links​

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Answer:

Compost, Recycle, Plant a tree, Solar power, Wind power, Hydroelectric power, and Save water

What are the organelles that transport, store and recycle resources within the cell?

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Lysosomes are organelles that digest and dispose of unwanted protein, DNA, RNA, carbohydrates, and lipids in the cell.

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Which will most likely happen if the decomposers are removed from the carbon cycle?

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Answer:

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will decrease. Decomposers release carbon into the atmosphere, so if they were removed less carbon would reach the atmosphere.

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