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Troposphere – This is the densest layer and where weather events occur
Stratosphere – This is where the ozone layer is found. Some high altitude aircraft cruise in this layer.
Mesosphere – Temperatures drop with altitude in this layer
Thermosphere – This is where most of the meteorites that enter the earth’s atmosphere burn up. This layer takes up most of the Uv and X-rays from the sun. Most satellites orbiting earth are in this layer
Exosphere – almost akin to space due to the thinness of the layer. Molecules in the layer often escape into space
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A ‘pause’ is a transition between the above-mentioned distinct layers. The tropopause, for example, occurs between the troposphere and the stratosphere and the stratopause between the stratosphere and mesosphere and thermopause is found between thermosphere and exosphere.
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A temperature inversion is a rise in temperatures with altitude in a layer in the atmosphere. One layer exhibiting temperature inversion is the stratosphere. This is due to the ozone layer that absorbs UV light. The upper ozone absorbs most of the UV light, than lower ozone, exciting the molecules and making the higher altitudes in the layer to be warmer.
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The ozone layer protects life on earth from the high energy UV radiation from the sun. UV is capable of causing double-stranded break on DNA resulting in genetic mutations on organisms. Most of these would be lethal. The Ozone absorbs most of the UV before it reaches earth's surface. Ozone is formed when an oxygen molecule reacts with another oxygen atom to form an O₃. The oxygen atoms are made from the splitting of an oxygen molecule by UV light.
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Answer:
The correct answer will be options-
1. they share genetic similarities
2. they can interbreed
3. they fall under the same genus
Explanation:
The taxonomic studies help the organism to identify, nomenclature and classification of the organism.
The classification system helps organize the organisms into several groups based on the similarity of the morphological characters. The species is the lowest group of the system which contains the organism which is reproductively isolated from the other group of organism.
If two organism is found to be of the same species shows that they share the same gene pool, belongs to the same genus and they can interbreed.
Thus, the selected options are the correct answer.
Answer:
- Interruption in the genetic flow between separated groups
- The emergence of new mutations in each of the groups, and their accumulation in time. Slow and gradual differentiation between populations.
- Genetic divergence by natural selection and reproductive isolation
- Prezigotic isolation mechanisms
Explanation:
Allopatric speciation consists of the geographic separation of a continuous genetic background that can give place to two or more new geographically isolated populations. These separations might be due to migration, extinction of geographically intermediate populations, or geological events. In this speciation, some barriers impede genetic interchange, or genetic flux, as the two new groups that are separated can not get together and mate anymore. These barriers might be geographical or ecological.
The process of allopatric speciation involves different steps that affect organisms:
- The emergence of the barrier.
- Interruption in the genetic interchange
- The occurrence of new mutations and their accumulation in time in each population. Slow and gradual differentiation.
- Genetic divergence by natural selection and reproductive isolation makes it impossible for the two groups to mate even if the barrier disappears.
- Prezigotic isolation mechanisms will be favored by selection if occurs a secondary contact between the new species in formation.
Answer:
Productivity is refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem. The difference between net and gross productivity is that gross productivity is is the overall rate of energy capture while net productivity is is lower, adjusted for energy used by organisms in respiration/metabolism.
Explanation:
Description 2 describes a commensal symbiosis. The answer is D, commensalism.
