Answer: colostomy
Explanation:
Colostomy is a surgical procedure which is used to remove waste or feces from the body when the body is incapable of expelling out the waste. A stoma is the opening either created surgically or naturally present. It is the opening in the large intestine it allows the removal of the feces out of the body. The feces is drain through the rectum into the pouch of the collection device.
Answer:
It would most likely render the protein nonfunctional or mis-functional.
The mutation could result in three outcomes:
- Silent mutation, which changes the codon to the same amino acid. (AAA->AAG, both are lysine). But since the problem specified that it has a "slightly different amino acid sequence," we can assume this doesn't happen.
- Nonsense mutation, which changes a codon to a stop codon. This would end the chain of amino acids, making the protein potentially nonfunctional.
- Missense mutation, which changes a codon to another completely different codon. This can be harmful, as in sickle-cell disease, where just one amino acid, glutamic acid, is changed to valine.
Answer:
(C) The main predator of these fish is another species of fish on which alligators also prey.
Explanation:
The ecosystems are complex systems, and removing one species of them, always has a chain reaction and affects the population of the other species, be it in a positive or negative manner. In this case, the alligators prey upon fish, multiple different species. The alligators though have been removed from the ecosystem, thus the apex predator exists no more. This has opened up the top predator niche in the food chain in this particular ecosystem. The predatory fish species had no predators of its own, so its population increased, thus it needed more food, and that food was obtained by hunting the other fish species, resulting in a decline in the population of the other species of fish. Only when the carrying capacity is reached in the ecosystem for the predatory fish, the population of the other fish will stop declining.
Conservation is the protection of an organism or a group of organisms (like an endangered species or forests).
Biodiversity is the numerous amounts of species habitated in our earth. The more biodiversity, the better.
Conservation protects biodiveristy, thus, allowing more species to survive and thrive.
