This was Ernest Rutherford’s gold foil experiment. He used radioactive alpha particles as a part of the experiment and discovered that there was a densely packed, positively charged nucleus in atoms with electrons that were spread out in spaces between nuclei.
1. Respiration-process by which plants release CO, while they break down the sugar
2. Animals eat plants- They break down sugars and starches by a process of metabolism and the products are energy water, and CO2 molecules.
3. Decomposition-when plants die, their parts (wood, leaves) decay bringing the carbon into the ground
4. Root respiration- respiration that occurs in roots, adds to soil respiration (the amount of CO2 produced through root respiration is determined by the root biomass ).
The evolution of molecular biology has made possible to establish a new classification of all organisms according to their DNA, and it's called phylogenetic classification. This classification group living beings according to their kinship it is established according to anatomical, and especially genetic, based on the similarity of genes between species.
This made it possible to discover kinship ties between species of which there is no suspicion of any morphological link between them, something which the old classification (the traditional classification) was incapable of doing (and this proves the importance of the DNA and genes in organisms classification.
Continental crust is mostly composed of different types of granites. Geologists often refer to the rocks of the continental crust as “sial.” Sial stands for silicate and aluminum, the most abundant minerals in continental crust.
