The desert environment makes it difficult to take in water, so leaves that are small would adapt to the desert environment by trying to conserve the little water that they do receive. Therefore, your answer should be:
b. They minimize water loss.
D. The repressor is freed from the operator when lactose is present.
Think of a bacteria that comes into contact with some lactose sugar in milk. Normally it's not in milk, so the gene is repressed (prevented) from making the lac enzyme (which digests lactose). Now when it comes across some milk, it wants to make as much lac as possible to eat up all the lactose.
FYI: trp for tryptophan works the exact opposite with repressor blocking when trp IS PRESENT.
Answer: The program completed in a quarter of the time with four computers versus one computer
Explanation:
Distributed computing simply means using distributed systems in solving computational problems and this is done as the problem is divided into many tasks, whereby the tasks are accomplished by one or more computers.
Following the information given in the question, a speedup of 4 indicate that the program completed in a quarter of the time with four computers versus one computer.
