“20.2 Graphical representation of vectors (ESAGK)
Vectors are drawn as arrows. An arrow has both a magnitude (how long it is) and a direction (the direction in which it points). The starting point of a vector is known as the tail and the end point is known as the head.”
Pods of certain plants such as gorse and pansies have a way of flinging their seeds when ripe in every direction with considerable force. The thing that helps these seeds disperse is first and foremost the mechanical force itself used to catapult the seeds.
As they ripen, the seed pods gradually lose moisture, building up tension in their cells and subsequently in the pod as a whole. The structure inevitably fails gradually and during a hot day it gives way altogether due to heat stress and triggers an explosion firing the seeds with appreciable force away from the parent plant almost like a projectile for up to 100m (300 ft) away.
It is important to note that plants which use this explosive method or ballistic dispersal as it is also called tend to have seeds that are generally large and too heavy to be carried by the wind unlike those of plants such as dandelions which are light enough for wind dispersal. Therefore gorse and suchlike plants employ ballistic methods to ensure their seeds travel as far away from the parent plant as possible.
Answer:
Indeed, both monogamy and polygamy are reproductive strategies adopted by the different species of the animal world.
Explanation:
Polygamy implies the adoption of a unique and stable partner by an individual, with which in principle it will reproduce. Different species, including humans or penguins, in addition to maintaining the same pair for reproductive purposes, generate bonds of coexistence.
Other species (in fact, most animal species) are not guided by this type of relationship, but fulfill their reproductive functions in a random way, that is, with several individuals of the same species in a random way, which is called polygamy. In this case, there is a constant change in the reproductive couple, which responds to multiple factors such as for example a gender disproportion within the species (for example, many females and few males would make those few males have to comply reproductive functions with several females during the mating period), or due to the non-sedentary nature of life of these species.
a point mutation only mutates and changes that particular spot in the DNA strand while a frameshift changes the whole strand by moving the bases either one forward or backward
