Answer:
Any substance that cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by ordinary chemical processes.
Another definition:
An element is the simplest pure substance which can neither be split nor built up from other simpler substances by chemical reaction
Answer:
Three primary reasons. First, there is simply more water-covered places than dry ground places for the animals and plants to have lived. Second, the seas are much more crowded with the kinds of life that leave fossils than the land is. Third, the process that form fossils work very well under water.
Explanation:
Melting, vaporization, boiling, and sublimation.
Answer: 2.60 x 10^23 molecules
50.0 grams x (1 mol/115.79 grams) = 0.431816219 moles
0.431816219 mol x (6.02 x 10^23 molecules/1 mol) = 2.599533638 x 10^23 molecules (final answer is rounded)
D) 1 and 4
Chromosomes are made up of DNA. DNA strands contain short segments called genes.