Answer;
No, the petal is not alive according to the characteristics of life
Explanation;
-This is because the flower petal on it's own can not Grow, or Reproduce, Adapt to it's Environment, Use Energy, or Respond to it's Environment.
-Growth, reproduction, response, and respiration are some of the characteristics of living organisms, therefore for anything to be considered living it must possess these characteristics.
I would go with D, speaker. A poem is written by an author, but the author isn't always the speaker.
This is based on my assumption that brown is dominant over blue.
Since both parent have parents who are homo_zygous recessive, this tells us that both parents will be hetero_zygous.
When you cross two hetero_zygous parents, it can produce these genotypic and phenotypic ratios:
<u>Genotypic</u>
BB : Bb : bb
1 : 2 : 1
<u>Phenotypic</u>
brown : blue
3 : 1
Therefore there is a 75% chance that they will produce a brown-eyed offspring.
Gradualism and punctuated equilibrium are two ways in which evolution of a species can occur. Gradualism is selection and variation that happens more gradually; over a short period of time it is hard to notice
Air gets thinner as we go higher because there are less trees and gets thicker on ground level because of the abundance of vegetation.
Water is not condensed on the surface because it doesn't have any pressure acting on it vertically but gets condensed as we go deeper because its own weight acts as a force.
Both scenarios are similar.