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3 years ago

How do the characteristics of living things contribute to an organisms survival

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Any characteristic, whether a physical trait, a behaviour, a physiological adaptation etc can make an organism more or less likely to survive in a particular environment.

A dark colour could help a rabbit survive if it lives in a dark forest, because predators can't see it so well, but it would be less likely to survive in the arctic, where the environment is all white and it would show up. 

In terms of the characteristics, think about: does it help the organism get food? Does it help protect the organism from predators? If it does, that organism is more likely to survive, and pass the characteristic on to it's offspring. If a bacterium has a characteristic of not being killed by antibiotics, this will help it to survive and breed.

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B. diaphragm

Explanation:

this structure flutters and causes the chest cavity to largen

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3 years ago

High Energy electrons are transported from the chlorophyll to other molecules in the chloroplast by?

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Explanation:

High-energy electrons are transported from the chlorophyll to other molecules by electron carriers beginning with pheophytin, P0 (a form of chlorophyll), then A1 phylloquinone etc.

The chloroplast is an organelle attached to the membrane found in plants. This comprises many plasma membrane invaginations called the thylakoid membrane. It contains chlorophyll pigments, called granum in rows, while the organelle's internal areas are called the lumen. Water fills the granum and the stroma is created.

Further Explanation:

During the light reaction:

Photosystem II (PSII) contains pigments which consume light energy. This energy is exchanged between pigments until it enters the reaction core and is moved to P680; this transfers an electron to a higher level of energy where it then travels to a molecule of acceptors.
For those removed from photosystem II, water supplies the chlorophyll in plant cell with substitute electrons. Additionally, water (H2O) divided into H+ and OH-by light during photolysis acts as a source of oxygen along with functioning as a reducer.
The electron moves down the electron transport chain via several electron carriers
The e- is delivered (to PS I) where it has a continuous loss of energy. Such energy drives the drainage of H+ from the stroma to the thykaloid, which results in a gradient creation. The H+ pass down their curve, passing into the stroma by ATP synthase.
ATP synthase converts ADP and Pi to the ATP molecule, which stores energy.
The electron enters Photosystem I where it heads to P700 pigments. It's. This consumes light energy, transfers the electron to a higher energy level, and moves it on to an acceptor electron. This leaves room for another electron which is then replaced by a photosystem II electron.
In the ETC the NADP molecule is reduced to NADPH by supplying H+ ions. NADP and NADPH are vital to the Calvin cycle, in which monosaccharides or glucose-like sugars are produced after several molecules have been modified.

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3 years ago

The human body is composed of approximately 60% of water. Please select the best answer from the choices provided. T F

alexgriva [62]

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The given statement is True.

A human body is composed of around 60 percent of water, the average range is around 50-65 percent.

Water is a vital nutrient for any living organism including human beings.

Being a universal solvent, it primarily helps in metabolism and transportation of proteins and carbohydrates in our body.

It helps in maintaining the internal body temperature through respiration and sweating.

It helps in excretion of waste material through urination.

It lubricates joints and acts as shock absorbent for the fetus, spinal cord, and brain.

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What do you think really happened to the people of easter island?

BaLLatris [955]

Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land — more than a thousand miles from the next inhabited spot in the Pacific Ocean. In A.D. 1200 (or thereabouts), a small group of Polynesians — it might have been a single family — made their way there, settled in and began to farm. When they arrived, the place was covered with trees — as many as 16 million of them, some towering 100 feet high.

These settlers were farmers, practicing slash-and-burn agriculture, so they burned down woods, opened spaces, and began to multiply. Pretty soon the island had too many people, too few trees, and then, in only a few generations, no trees at all.

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Details about outer ear , inner ear , middle ear

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the outer ear is used to collect sound waves.

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