Answer:
This is because the level of energy decreases throughout the food pyramid.
At the beginning with producers, they contain the most energy or 100%. However, once they are consumed, the consumer loses 90% of the energy. Thus, primary consumers only get 10% of the energy, secondary consumers only get 1% and so on and so forth higher.
Because of the lack of energy being passed along within the food pyramid, higher order consumers (typically carnivores) must have a lot of prey to consume, but this also means competition. Therefore, higher in the ranks, there is more competition which leads to smaller populations.
Poaching is the act of illegally killing an animal. The very prominent subject of poaching is the rhino, some species of which are now virtually extinct due to extensive illegal hunting. However, many other animals are also poached. For example, elephants are poached for the ivory in their tusks. Tigers are poached as trophy animals or for traditional medicine. Sea turtles and lemurs also suffer a similar fate for similar reasons.
The poaching of these animals has driven their population into corners, where they face imminent extinction. Although rehabilitation efforts are extensive, it is unlikely that the populations of these animals will recover unless the poachers are stopped first.
The stage that land gets ready for the arrival of new species is migration.
Answer:
75%
Explanation:
This question involves a single gene coding for the ability to taste the chemical PTC. The allele coding for the ability to taste (T) is dominant over the allele coding for the inability to taste (t). This means that an heterozygous individual will have the ability to taste PTC.
According to this question, if two heterozygous tasters (Tt) cross to have a large family i.e. Tt × Tt, the following gametes will be produced by each parent;
Tt = T and t
Using these gametes in a punnet square (see attached image), the following proportion of offsprings will be produced:
TT, Tt, Tt - Tasters (3/4 or 75%)
tt - Non-taster (1/4 or 25%)
Note that based on the question asked, there is a 75% probability that their first child will be a taster because there is equal segregation of alleles into gametes.
Answer: The most accepted guess is: By bamboo rafts.
Explanation:
There are two hypotheses.
The first is that they arrived on Flores as Homo erectus and then evolved to Homo floresiensis. The second is that they were already Homo floresiensis when they arrived. This second one is the more accepted hypothesis because it would take organization and language to accomplish this technological water transportation feat. Homo erectus is not known to have developed speech.
Now at the time this transport was estimated to have happened, 100000 years ago, the islands of Komodo and Flores were joined and visible from the mainland. Together they constituted a 19km wide straight visible that could be easily seen from the mainland. The Homo floresiensis tribes built bamboo rafts, or possibly some other floating apparatus made if wood, and sailed there. The islands then progressively drifted apart, isolating them.
PS: It is important to note that some things may have drove them there such as famine, violence, etc.
