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The two cycles of the matter are the carbon and nitrogen cycle. Both of them are biogeochemical cycles, it means that the chemicals spend a portion of the cycle in living things and non-living things. They are also common in that they both recycle nutrients that are essential to all organisms.
They are different in the manner that they cycle. Nitrogen is huge, 78% of the air around us is nitrogen. It cannot be used by plants or animals. Once the nitrogen is used by the plant and make its way to the animal, it can be released to decomposition.
Carbon has no requirement in processing by bacteria prior to plants and animals being able to use. Plants take carbon dioxide and make it sugar, animals eat the sugar. Some of it is released carbon dioxide that we exhale.
A clade is a group of species that includes an ancestral species and all of its descendents
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The superior temporal gyrus (STG) is on the inferior–lateral brain surface near the external ear. In macaques, 2/3 of the STG is occupied by an auditory cortical region, the “parabelt,” which is part of a network of inferior temporal areas subserving communication and social cognition as well as object recognition and other functions. However, due to its location beneath the squamous temporal bone and temporalis muscle, the STG, like other inferior temporal regions, has been a challenging target for physiological studies in awake-behaving macaques. We designed a new procedure for implanting recording chambers to provide direct access to the STG, allowing us to evaluate neuronal properties and their topography across the full extent of the STG in awake-behaving macaques. Initial surveys of the STG have yielded several new findings. Unexpectedly, STG sites in monkeys that were listening passively responded to tones with magnitudes comparable to those of responses to 1/3 octave band-pass noise. Mapping results showed longer response latencies in more rostral sites and possible tonotopic patterns parallel to core and belt areas, suggesting the reversal of gradients between caudal and rostral parabelt areas. These results will help further exploration of parabelt areas.
Explanation:
Auditory cortex has been less extensively studied in primates than visual cortex, and little is known about auditory cortex organization in galagos. The standard model for the early stages of processing in auditory cortex of primates now includes a core of three primary or primary-like areas, A1 (the primary area), R (the rostral area), and RT (the rostrotemporal area), surrounded by a belt of eight secondary areas, bordered laterally by a parabelt, a third level of cortical processing of two divisions
Answer:
The correct answer is A. stabilizing selection
Explanation:
Stabilizing selection is one type of natural selection that occurs when the population having non-extreme traits are stabilized. It results in overexpression of a particular trait in a population. Here most average individual gets selected.
So as the stabilizing selection favors the middle phenotype and not extreme phenotypes it decrease the genetic variation. So here individuals who are having extremely long snout are selected therefore a particular trait is selected and overexpressed in the population. So it is an example of stabilizing selection.
Hot and Dry
Hot and dry deserts, such as the Sonoran Desert
of Arizona and northwestern Mexico, are warm year-round with an extreme
range of diurnal (daily) temperatures because of low humidity. Brief but
heavy storms may occur seasonally. Soil is hard and rocky. Burrowing
mammals, insects and reptiles are the main fauna. The Great Sandy Desert
of Australia and the Sahara of north Africa fall under this category.
Semi-Arid
Semi-arid
deserts, such as the Great Basin of Nevada and western Utah, have long
dry summers plus winter rainfall. Dew fall may exceed rainfall. Soil is
sandy and rocky, and may include “caliche” (pans of calcium carbonate).
Fauna is consistent with hot and dry deserts.
