Why would pushing a wooden block across a rough surface make the block warm?

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As we know there is a certain force called the frictional force that is required in order to resist the movement of a certain object. This frictional force occurs whenever two objects are rubbed against each other. The frictional force generated is converted to heat energy in due time making the surface hot.

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Why is redi's experiment a good example of a controlled experiment

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A controlled experiment is when the experimenter can change one variable in the experiment and completely change the results.

Redi experiment involved a closed jar with rotting meat on the inside. He waited for a few days and found no new forms of life in the jar.
He then did the same experiment, but this time he took the lid off the jar. After those few days he found there were maggots in the rotting meat from flies.

This is a great example of a controlled experiment, because he only had to change one variable to completely change the results. In this case that variable was just removing the lid from the jar.

Redi was trying to prove spontaneous generation with his experiment. Although, it failed.

Spontaneous generation: When life forms from non-livings.

Redi disproved spontaneous generation, but proved biogenesis.

Biogenesis: When life comes from other living beings.

He proved biogenesis because the flies had reproduced when the jar was opened.

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The organisms that harness non-biological energy and convert it to biologically relevant/useful energy are called __ 1 __ _. The

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The organisms that harness non-biological energy and convert it to biologically relevant/useful energy are called __autotrophos or producers_. The organisms that consume these are called _herbivores_ (it should end in -ores) which occur at the __second_ trophic level. The number of trophic levels that any ecological system will primarily dependent on the _consumer_ organisms.

Explanation:

In the trophic web occurs energy transference through organisms occupying different levels in the chain. Each level feeds on the preceding one and becomes food for the next one. The first link is occupied by autotroph organisms, which are the producer. The following links are the consumers: herbivores are primary consumers and feed on producers. Carnivores are secondary consumers and feed on herbivores, and so on. The last links are the decomposers, microorganisms that act on dead animals degrading organic matter.

Every link has an effect on the superior links and the immediately anterior link, meaning that whenever one of the links changes, the other ones will be affected.

Autotrophs or producers synthesize inorganic substances, such as light, and turn them into organic matter according to their own needs. These organisms are photoautotrophs, such as plants, or chemoautotrophs. They occur at the first trophic level.

Heterotrophs are those incapable of producing their own organic matter, so they feed on producers, depending on them to get proteins and energy. In the trophic chain, heterotrophic organisms occupy the first, second, or third consumer level, after producers. These animals can be herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous, hematophagous, ichthyophagous, and etcetera. All of them depend on autotrophic organisms.

In the particular case of herbivores, they occur at the second throphic level feeding on producers and being eaten by carnivores.

In general, most trophic chains are composed of 4 or 5 levels, depending on the number of consumers present, and the energy transference between levels.

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Chromosomes are lined up in the middle of the cell during which phase of mitosis?

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Chromosomes are lined up in the middle of the cell during metaphase.

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Mendel determined that for a given character(i.e. pea seed shape) an individual has two factors that these can exist in two form

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a. different alleles of the seed shape gene.

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Mendel crossed different varieties of pea plants and he observed how phenotypic traits passed to the progeny. From these experiments, Mendel formulated the 'First Law of Segregation', where he observed that traits may exist in pairs that segregate (separate) at meiosis. During meiosis, i.e., gamete formation, these two factors separate from each other, thereby each gamete has the same probability of receiving either factor. Nowadays, we know that these two factors represent two different gene variants or 'alleles' for a given gene locus. Alleles can be classified into dominant or recessive as in the example above described, where the R factor (round) dominates on the r factor (wrinkled) to determine the seed shape.

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A botanist scrapes pollen off a flower of one plant and then uses it to pollinate the flower of another plant. What can be scien

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They will have a large number of genetic variations.

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Genetic variations arise due to sexual reproduction or due to the process of meiosis.

Cross-pollination can be described as a process in which the pollen of one flower is transferred to another flower. The pollen when fertilizes the egg in the stigma, will produce offspring with varied genetic characteristics. This will be because the pollen would carry the trait of another flower and the egg of another flower. This will lead to many genetic variations.

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