Answer: The study of plant varieties.
Explanation:
This question relates to the studies that Gregor Mendel, founder of modern genetics, performed at the University of Vienna.
Experimenting on pea plants, Gregor Mendel was able to establish a lot of the rules of heredity that we know today even though his research was not fully appreciated or understood during his own life.
He credited the study of plant varieties to have been most crucial to his final analysis because farmers had been crossbreeding varieties for millennia to bring about better traits in plants.
· Abiotic factors are nonliving, such as temperature, sunlight, and soil in an ecosystem.
· Biotic factors are the living parts of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals.
Given the above, the biotic factor listed is evergreen trees in a coniferous forest.
The other options - soil, precipitation, and temperature - are abiotic.
Answer:
<span>C. evergreen trees present in a coniferous forest
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Between 1 to 9 million have been estimated to be living in the coral reefs throughout the world
