Answer:
the genetic constitution of an individual organism.
investigate the genetic constitution of an individual organism.
Explanation:
<span>CPT code stands for Current Procedural Terminology. Medical providers use specific codes to report the procedure and/or services performed on a patient. This allows the insurers to know how much to reimburse the provider. The CPT code for this particular situation would be 88173.</span>
Answer:
This study was focused on an Ecosystem level, as it involved soil properties and above-ground vegetation interacting with mentioned soil physic properties.
Explanation:
Ecological studies can be performed at different hierarchy levels:
- <u>Organism</u>: This is an individual physiologically independent from other individuals. At this level, it must be understood <em>how an organism survives</em> under certain changing <em>physic and chemistry conditions</em>, and how it <em>behaves</em> to reproduce, avoid predators, and find food.
- <u>Population</u>: Groups of individuals from the same species, with similar characteristics, capable of crossing, leaving offspring that live in the same habitat at the same time. At this level, it is interesting to know the <em>size of the population required to leave fertile offspring</em> that ensure the population will <em>survive over time</em>. It is also interesting to know <em>genetic variability </em>that allows <em>evolutive adaptation </em>to environmental changes.
- <u>Community</u>: Relationship or interaction between different species groups that live in the same habitat and at the same time. At this level, it is interesting to study <em>inter-specific interactions</em> that could cause <em>changes in the populations´ size</em>. These could be the cases of competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and etcetera.
- <u>Ecosystem</u>: Basic interaction unit between population and environment that turn in complex relations existing between living and non-living elements in a given area. In the example, interactions between recovering vegetation and soil properties, as non-living elements.
This statement is mostly false. While all organisms do share basic needs to sustain life, there is a wide variety of strategies employed to meet these needs. For example, while most plants receive nutrients from soil, some live in soils which do not fully meet their needs. Such plants sometimes kill and use animals in order to meet these needs (i.e. venus flytrap) or partner with bacteria that produce some of the nutrients they need (i.e legumes).
