There are actually 2 kinds of minerals mainly in our human bone. They're calcium and phosphorus. There are also other types of minerals, but they're in very small amounts. Mainly are those 2. We can take in these 2 minerals by eating food such as diary foods, meat, eggs etc. Also, if we have a lack of intake of calcium or phosphorus, one of the deficiency disease can be rickets, like soft bones, legs may bend outside as a child or bones may crack easily in adults.
Gene expression in all organisms depends on protein synthesis. What is the last stage in protein synthesis, in which amino acids are assembled by tRNA? translation. The steps in proteins synthesis are identical in all six organisms.
Because the student is observing the effects on the population, so it would make more sense to add more fish to the tanks to see how they would get effected.