The disadvantage of sexual reproduction is that outside influences can determine the viability of the offspring. In humans, for example, a failure for a mother to consume an adequate amount of folic acid is directly linked to neural tube birth defects. This defect occurs at the earliest stages of development, often when a woman doesn’t know she is pregnant, which means the folic acid must be consumed when attempting to conceive.
Answer:
1. chloroplast
2. they prevent some proteins to function how they normally function
Explanation:
Answer:
Hg
Explanation:
We are given information about the unknown element, and using each characteristic, we can narrow down the possible elements until we have just one possibility left.
Conducts electricity: This means that the element has to be a metal, or a semi-metal, because non-metals cannot conduct electricity.
Forming chloride and oxide ions: When it is seen that it forms chloride and oxide ions in the form of XCl₂ and XO, it can be seen that this element has an ionic charge of +2. This narrows it down to the elements in <u>Group 2.</u>
Liquid at room temperature: This is tricky, because we realize that there are no elements in group 2 that are liquid at room temperature. So hence we can look at groups 3 to 12, and see if there are any liquid metals with an ionic charge of +2.
Taking all this information into account, we can see that the only element it can be is mercury (Hg).
