A drought would most likely cause there to be a scarcity of food for the ground finch, because the plants/seeds that it feeds on would be dying at a higher rate without water. The resulting scarcity of food would be a selective pressure against the finches, meaning only the finches that had certain adaptations would survive the drought and be able to reproduce.
For instance, maybe the drought kills most of the plants that have small seeds and doesn't kill as many plants with large seeds. In this case, the ground finches that have larger beaks would be more well adapted to eat the available food and survive the drought. They would then reproduce at a higher rate than finches with smaller beaks, and therefore they would pass on their genes to the next generation. As generations passed the large-beak ground finches would be more common in the population and the small-beak finches would become less common.
Heterotrophs are organisms incapable of photosynthesis that must therefore obtain energy and carbon from food by consuming other organisms.
The answer is; B
Not all disturbances to ecosystems are undesirable. The fact, however, is that disturbance does change the structure of the ecosystem including impacting the biodiversity. The disturbance may benefit some species while it may be disadvantageous to some species. An example is that while a volcanic eruption might devastate a whole ecosystem, the recovered ecosystem after time may have an increased biodiversity than before.
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Answer: Then the longer it is, the more it protects against degradation. Proteins that are needed over a long period of time come from a long tailed mRNA.
Explanation:
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is the ribonucleic acid that transfers the genetic code from the DNA of the cell nucleus to a ribosome in the cytoplasm. It determines the order in which the amino acids in a protein will bind and acts as a template or pattern for the synthesis of that protein.
Messenger RNA is synthesized in the cell nucleus in eukaryotes from the process called DNA transcription.
<u> In most cases, once this messenger RNA has been synthesized, it must be matured (RNA maturation)</u>. This involves the removal of intercalary sequences called non-coding introns from the protein to be synthesized. Then, the addition of a structure called CAP to the 5' end, which is a modified guanine nucleotide needed for the normal process of DNA transplantation and maintaining its stability. This is critical for proper recognition and access of the ribosome. Also, polyadenylation which is the addition of the sequence called Poly-A to the 3' end. The Poly-A sequence is made up of several adenine molecules and is located at about 20-30 bp towards the tail (AAPAA sequence) or polyadenylation signal, which protects the end of the mRNA. The polyadenylation helps to increase the period of the message, so that the transcription lasts longer in the cell and therefore more protein is translated and produced.
This mature messenger RNA is transferred to the cell's cytoplasm, in the case of eukaryotes, through pores in the nuclear membrane. The messenger RNA in the cytoplasm is coupled to the ribosomes, which are the machinery in charge of protein synthesis.<u> However, after a certain amount of time the mRNA is degraded</u> into its component nucleotides, usually with the help of ribonucleases. So, an mRNA with a short tail will have a shorter lifespan.
Then, proteins that are needed over a long period of time come from a long tailed mRNA. And proteins that are briefly nedded come from a short tailed mRNA. This is because, as explained, the Poly-A tail serves to protect the mRNA molecule from degradation. So, then the longer it is, the more it protects against degradation.
