I believe this question is trying to get you to realize the difference between acquired traits(one you get through doing something during life) and heritable traits(ones from Mom/Dad). For example, I really wish I was 6 foot 4... but the height trait comes genetically from your parents since it is coded in my DNA how tall I will be, therefore this trait must be passed down genetically and somewhere down the evolutionary tree the humans in the region which my family comes from was better off being short. An example that comes from acquired traits could be muscularity... my parents are both not very muscular but throughout my lifetime I enjoy working out and have become much more muscular, no matter how much your parents or grandparents lift weights YOU won't change so that change must be acquired through aging during your lifetime. Now the amount of muscle your body can put on is a heritable thing but that is beside the point. Hope this helps :)
Answer:
The cells need water to maintain their metabolic functions, the way water enters through cells membranes is by osmosis.
Explanation:
The cell membrane is a lipidic bilayer composed of phospholipids and embedded proteins. Phospholipids have the characteristic of being amphiphilic which means that possess hydrophilic and lipophilic characteristics. The most common way is by osmosis, that is a mechanism that moves water from high concentration to less concentration of water. In the cell membrane, there are is channels of proteins called aquaporins that facilitate the pass of water through the membrane. Also, as water is a very small molecule without charge, this characteristic allows passing a limit amount of water molecules through the hydrophilic characteristic of membranes.
The answers would be:
Genotype Phenotype
Tt Tall stemmed
tt Short stemmed
Genotypic ratio : 2:2 or 1:1
Phenotypic ratio: 2:2 or 1:1
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<u>You can read on to see how this was done:</u>
Tall stems (T) are dominant to short stems (t).
First figure out the genotypes of the parents. We have a short-stemmed plant and a heterozygous long-stemmed plant cross.
For short stem to occur, you need 2 pairs of short alleles. So the first parent would have a genotype of tt.
Heterozygous long-stemmed means that the parent has one of each allele. So the genotype of the second parent would be, Tt.
Now we can make our Punnett Square.
tt x Tt
<u> t t </u>
<u>T | Tt | Tt</u>
<u>t | tt | tt</u>
Let's list down the genotypes and phenotypic results.
Genotype no. Phenotype
Tt 2 Tall stemmed
tt 2 Short stemmed
So from that we can answer the other questions:
Genotypic ratio : 2:2 or 1:1
Phenotypic ratio: 2:2 or 1:1
