All categories

3 years ago

Which action explains how a somatic cell mutation can harm an organism

1 answer:

wel3 years ago

6 0

Somatic mutations are acquired after birth in non-reproductive cells. These changes occur in only certain cells of the body and can be caused by tobacco use, ultraviolet radiation, viruses, chemicals and age. Acquired mutations are the most common cause of cancer.

Humans experience many somatic mutations over a lifetime, and the human body is normally able to correct most of these changes. This is why there is only a small chance of one mutation causing cancer. It normally takes many mutations over a lifetime to cause cancer. This is why older people are the most likely group to get cancer, as they have had more chances for mutations to build up.

You might be interested in

Which is responsible for the granular appearance of cells in the stratum granulosum?

Alisiya [41]

Keratinocytes migrating from the underlying stratum spinosum become known as granular cells in this layer.

<h3>Where are the granular cells?</h3>

The tiniest and most prevalent kind of brain neuron are called granule cells. They perform tasks like learning and memory processing as well as the processing of visual and motor input. Key neuroscience facts are presented in Brain Bytes.

The cerebral cortex, the superficial layer of the dorsal cochlear nucleus, the granular layer of the cerebellum, the hippocampus' dentate gyrus, the olfactory bulb, and the superficial layer of the dorsal cochlear nucleus all contain granule cells.

<h3>What are the keratinocytes cells?</h3>

Due to their role as the epidermis' structural foundation, keratinocytes are the most prevalent type of skin cell. Keratinocyte division occurs at the basal to spinous layer (stratum basal and stratum spinosum, respectively).

To know more about granular cells visit:

brainly.com/question/17213567

#SPJ4

5 0

1 year ago

Succession is the process of change in the biodiversity of an ecosystem over time. one type of succession is a process that brin

Vadim26 [7]

This would be primary succession. Primary succession is succession starting from bare rock. Succession may start with weathering of the rock to create small pockets of lose soil. Seeds of pioneer plants may be carried by the wind to fall into pockets of soil with sufficient moisture to allow germination. The growth of pioneer plants will further break up the bare rock, creating a deeper layer of soil. As the plants grow, dead leaves and roots enrich the soil with organic content. Small animals start to colonise the area, such as gophers, who further break up and enrich the soil. The plants change from pioneer plants to plants of a specific biome. Succession will continue in this fashion until until an equilibrium is achieved.

3 0

3 years ago

Why are producers so important

katen-ka-za [31]

Answer:

Explanation:

Producers are also known as autotrophs, which they make their own food. Producers capture sunlight energy and use it to convert CO2 (carbon dioxide) and H2O (water) into O2 (oxygen) and C6H12O6 (glucose) for other organisms to use. This process is called photosynthesis.

6 0

2 years ago

If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V?”

marshall27 [118]

Because your an idiot

7 0

3 years ago

Read 2 more answers

Which two fit?

Kobotan [32]

Answer:

Explanation:

There are a few types of atoms that can be a part of a plant one day, an animal the next day, and then travel downstream as a part of a river’s water the following day. These atoms can be a part of both living things like plants and animals, as well as non-living things like water, air, and even rocks. The same atoms are recycled over and over in different parts of the Earth. This type of cycle of atoms between living and non-living things is known as a biogeochemical cycle.

All of the atoms that are building blocks of living things are a part of biogeochemical cycles. The most common of these are the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Tiny atoms of carbon and nitrogen are able to move around the planet through these cycles. For example, an atom of carbon is absorbed from the air into the ocean water where it is used by little floating plankton doing photosynthesis to get the nutrition they need. There is the possibility that this little carbon atom becomes part of the plankton’s skeleton, or a part of the skeleton of the larger animal that eats it, and then part of a sedimentary rock when the living things die and only bones are left behind. Carbon that is a part of rocks and fossil fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas may be held away from the rest of the carbon cycle for a long time. These long-term storage places are called “sinks”. When fossil fuels are burned, carbon that had been underground is sent into the air as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

Recently, people have been causing these biogeochemical cycles to change. When we cut down forests, make more factories, and drive more cars that burn fossil fuels, the way that carbon and nitrogen move around the Earth changes. These changes add more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and this causes climate change.

Carbon cycleThe Carbon Cycle

The element carbon is a part of seawater, the atmosphere, rocks such as limestone and coal, soils, as well as all living things. On our dynamic planet, carbon is able to move from one of these realms to another as a part of the carbon cycle.

Carbon moves from the atmosphere to plants. In the atmosphere, carbon is attached to oxygen in a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2). Through the process of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is pulled from the air to produce food made from carbon for plant growth.

Carbon moves from plants to animals. Through food chains, the carbon that is in plants moves to the animals that eat them. Animals that eat other animals get the carbon from their food too.

Carbon moves from plants and animals to soils. When plants and animals die, their bodies, wood and leaves decays bringing the carbon into the ground. Some is buried and will become fossil fuels in millions and millions of years.

Carbon moves from living things to the atmosphere. Each time you exhale, you are releasing carbon dioxide gas (CO2) into the atmosphere. Animals and plants need to get rid of carbon dioxide gas through a process called respiration.

Carbon moves from fossil fuels to the atmosphere when fuels are burned. When humans burn fossil fuels to power factories, power plants, cars and trucks, most of the carbon quickly enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide gas. Each year, five and a half billion tons of carbon is released by burning fossil fuels. Of this massive amount, 3.3 billion tons stays in the atmosphere. Most of the remainder becomes dissolved in seawater.

Carbon moves from the atmosphere to the oceans. The oceans, and other bodies of water, absorb some carbon from the atmosphere. The carbon is dissolved into the water.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and traps heat in the atmosphere. Without it and other greenhouse gases, Earth would be a frozen world. But since the start of the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago humans have burned so much fuel and released so much carbon dioxide into the air that global climate has risen over one degree Fahrenheit. The atmosphere has not held this much carbon for at least 420,000 years according to data from ice cores. The recent increase in amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is having a significant impact on the warming of our planet.

7 0

2 years ago