An example of a homeostatic response that helps organisms survive is their ability to regulate body temperature. The hypothalamus is human brains regulate our body temperatures to maintain internal homeostasis.
Answer:
This study was focused on an Ecosystem level, as it involved soil properties and above-ground vegetation interacting with mentioned soil physic properties.
Explanation:
Ecological studies can be performed at different hierarchy levels:
- <u>Organism</u>: This is an individual physiologically independent from other individuals. At this level, it must be understood <em>how an organism survives</em> under certain changing <em>physic and chemistry conditions</em>, and how it <em>behaves</em> to reproduce, avoid predators, and find food.
- <u>Population</u>: Groups of individuals from the same species, with similar characteristics, capable of crossing, leaving offspring that live in the same habitat at the same time. At this level, it is interesting to know the <em>size of the population required to leave fertile offspring</em> that ensure the population will <em>survive over time</em>. It is also interesting to know <em>genetic variability </em>that allows <em>evolutive adaptation </em>to environmental changes.
- <u>Community</u>: Relationship or interaction between different species groups that live in the same habitat and at the same time. At this level, it is interesting to study <em>inter-specific interactions</em> that could cause <em>changes in the populations´ size</em>. These could be the cases of competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and etcetera.
- <u>Ecosystem</u>: Basic interaction unit between population and environment that turn in complex relations existing between living and non-living elements in a given area. In the example, interactions between recovering vegetation and soil properties, as non-living elements.
Answer:
A) incomplete dominance.
Explanation:
It is a clear case of incomplete dominance. This kind of inheritance shows deviation from Mendel's popular law of genetics which is known as "Law of Dominance". This law states that when two pure breeding parents i.e. homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive are mated then all their off-springs are genotypically heterozygous but phenotypically they all show dominant trait. But in incomplete dominance, <u>the dominant allele is unable to mask the expression of recessive allele completely</u> which leads to a phenotype which is a blend of both the traits.
In the example, orange beak is unable to mask the expression of ivory beak completely as a result of which all the off-springs have an intermediate trait which is pale, ivory-orange beak.
