Answer:
c) A study of how disease rates vary among different population groups
Explanation:
Epidemiology is the systematic and scientific study of the distribution of the health-related issue in a specified population.
The Epidemiologists studies the disease and its cause in a population by the collection of the data which gives an insight in the distribution of the health issues in the population living from a small area like school to a country.
The epidemiological studies help the society by reducing the risk of the negative health outcomes, in spreading awareness about the health issues and in framing the health policies.
Thus, Option-C is the correct answer.
Answer:
all organisms need food for the energy required to live and grow.
Answer:
1. Stabilizing Selection
2. Directional Selection
3. Disruptive Selection
Explanation:
Stabilizing Selection
This type of natural selection occurs when there are selective pressures working against two extremes of a trait and therefore the intermediate or “middle” trait is selected for. If we look at a distribution of traits in the population, it is noticeable that a standard distribution is followed:
Example: For a plant, the plants that are very tall are exposed to more wind and are at risk of being blown over. The plants that are very short fail to get enough sunlight to prosper. Therefore, the plants that are a middle height between the two get both enough sunlight and protection from the wind.
Directional Selection
This type of natural selection occurs when selective pressures are working in favour of one extreme of a trait. Therefore when looking at a distribution of traits in a population, a graph tends to lean more to one side:
Example: Giraffes with the longest necks are able to reach more leaves to each. Selective pressures will work in the advantage of the longer neck giraffes and therefore the distribution of the trait within the population will shift towards the longer neck trait.
Disruptive Selection
This type of natural selection occurs when selective pressures are working in favour of the two extremes and against the intermediate trait. This type of selection is not as common. When looking at a trait distribution, there are two higher peaks on both ends with a minimum in the middle as such:
Example: An area that has black, white and grey bunnies contains both black and white rocks. Both the traits for white and black will be favored by natural selection since they both prove useful for camouflage. The intermediate trait of grey does not prove as useful and therefore selective pressures act against the trait.
Answer:
What are the statements? can we have a picture? :-)
Explanation:
The following that is a characteristic that could be applied to both living and nonliving things can contain mostly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
