Answer:
Higher food production per unit of agricultural land
Explanation:
With respect to the rate of fertilizer usage in relation to food production over the past 40 years, we can assume that we are almost getting to the limit to which Nitrogen fertilizer input can further increase food production using the same area of land. Further higher input of nitrogen fertilizer might be counter productive, and neither do lower use of Nitrogen fertilizer per unit area solve the predicted increase in demand of food in the future. The most plausible statement that represents future agricultural changes for maintaining an adequate food supply in response to growing population is “Higher food production per unit of agricultural land”. This can be achieved through other technological innovations compared to nitrogen use.
Answer:
An alteration in DNA that occurs after conception. Somatic mutations can occur in any of the cells of the body except the germ cells (sperm and egg) and therefore are not passed on to children. These alterations can (but do not always) cause cancer or other diseases.
Explanation:
when a skin stem cell harbors a cancer-driving mutation, it becomes more likely to generate two specialized skin cells when it divides. Over time, the mutated skin stem cell fails to renew itself and turns into cells that eventually slough off, allowing the skin to expel mutated cells as needed.
Errors in DNA copying during cell division and development can cause new mutations — called de novo mutations — at any time from the moment of conception. Mutations that occur in the germ line — the cells that develop into sperm or eggs — can be passed on to the next generation and, perhaps, cause disease in children.
Answer:
in pretty sure the population of mice will increase
If a lot of tryptophan is present, the operon will be repressed.
Under intermediate amounts of tryptophan, the change to stop codons would cause the ribosome to stall and therefore would mimic as if there were no tryptophan present.
If no tryptophan present, the operon would be maximally expressed.
a - True. The ribosome would always be stalled in the leader sequence - so this wouldn't matter. However, the operon would still be transcribed because the repressor would be active (remember Trp operon is controlled both by attenuation and repression). True as long as there's not much tryptophan to activate the repressor!
b- True - With no tryptophan the repressor isn't engaged and the ribosome is stalled in the leader sequence.
c- Matters about how much tryptophan is available. So True if there's lots of tryptophan available.
d- I would choose this one as all of the above could be true depending on the levels of tryptophan.