False - they're "natural" resources.
The aspect of chromosome behavior that most clearly accounts for Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment is the replication of chromosomes. The replication occurs before meiosis. As a result, the alleles of one gene can be sorted into gametes and are independent of the alleles of other genes.
The correct answer to this question is this one: "<span>Since they eat lower on the trophic level and don't expend much energy they are able to grow larger."
</span><span>The giant baleen whales can grow so large because </span><span>they eat lower on the trophic level and don't expend much energy they are able to grow larger. </span>
If the a decomposer were absent from the forest, everything would just pile up onto one another and never be returned to the Earth.