Natural selection makes it so that an organism from a species has a better chance of surviving than an organism in the same species, but with different traits. Survival of the fittest proves that certain traits can help an organisms survive better than its peers. For example, say there was an allele that made bears have thicker fur than others. The year-round climate is extremely cold. The bears with thicker fur are more likely to survive due to the warmth their fur provides and will have more offspring. The bears with thinner fur will die more often and not produce healthy offspring due to the frigid temperature. Eventually, the allele for thin fur will die out because the bears with these alleles cannot survive in their habitat.
Energy increases with increasing frequency.
Answer:
b) F
Explanation:
Only non-metals can gain electrons during ionic bonding.
b) F
Li, Mg and K are metals.
Answer:
The two physical/ chemical processes by which carbon dioxide molecules in the air move to the cells of phytoplankton in the ocean are the photosynthesis and the biological carbon pump.
Explanation:
The biological carbon pump is the action of organisms to move carbon during chemical and biological interactions from the surface into the deeper ocean and then to rocks.
The biological carbon pump its composed of three processes, which are the photosynthesis, the gravity and the food web interactions. They are all part of the carbon cycle.
During the photosynthesis, the phytoplankton take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that is dissolved in the surface water, and receives the energy from the sun to turn it into glucose and oxygen.
In the cells of the phytoplankton, glucose is transformed into other organic compounds. This material has organic carbon that can end in two ways: it is incorporated to marine organisms during the food web interactions or it can be remineralised forming calcium carbonate in the ocean surface.
The remineralization can be done by many organisms to build its shells or skeletons, or by chemical processes that happen in the ocean. This process allows more carbon dioxide to enter the water and to continue the cycle.
So when marine organisms die, all its organic components sink into the bottom of the ocean and carbon-rich sediments are form. And after millions of years, these sediments turn into rocks after going through chemical and physical phenomenon.
Ion, any atom or group of atoms that bears one or more positive or negative electrical charges. Positively charged ions are called cations; negatively charged ions, anions. Ions are formed by the addition of electrons to, or the removal of electrons from, neutral atoms or molecules or other ions; by combination of ions with other particles; or by rupture of a covalent bond between two atoms in such a way that both of the electrons of the bond are left in association with one of the formerly bonded atoms. Examples of these processes include the reaction of a sodium atom with a chlorine atom to form a sodium cation and a chloride anion; the addition of a hydrogen cation to an ammonia molecule to form an ammonium cation; and the dissociation of a water molecule to form a hydrogen cation and a hydroxide anion.
