Heredity is the process of passing of traits from one generation to the next generation. Now, this process would not lead to any interesting results (and in turn, the astonishing variety of life on earth), if this process was 100% accurate or faithful. So, even though traits are transferred from parents to their off-springs, the traits are usually marginally altered.
This gives rise to off-springs who are like their parents but with very minor changes. These changes could either be a) beneficial b) harmful (deleterious) or c) neutral.
Harmful changes cause the organism to perish before it can pass on these changes to the next generation. Sometimes a trait that existed in the earlier might become deleterious due to a change in the environment and thus, undergo the process of elimination from the population.
Beneficial changes help the organism to adapt better to its surroundings and live longer and have more off-springs such that these changes are spread to more and more organisms in the population and are eventually get fixed.
A series of such changes in a subsection of a population eventually lead to a new species which is nothing like the older generation. This process of “fixing” or beneficial changes and removal of deleterious traits from a population is called evolution.
Interestingly, the changes that seem the most inconsequential, the neutral changes, are responsible for the bulk of evolution. Neutral changes along with geographical isolation lead to a process called genetic drift, which is considered by many to be the strongest driving force of evolution.
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Explanation:
<em>Recall that the law of dilution states that the number of moles before dilution must be equal to the number of moles after dilution.</em>
Mathematically,
molarity x number of moles before dilution = molarity x number of moles after dilution.
For solution A: final molarity = 3 mM, final volume = 2mL, initial molarity of KMnO4 = 10 mM
Applying the equation:
10 x initial volume = 3 x 2
initial volume = 6/10 = 0.6
<u>Hence, Tube A should be made with 0.6 mL of 10 mM KMnO4 stock and 1.4 mL of distilled water to give a solution of 2 mL 3 mM KMnO4.</u>
For solution B:final molarity = 8 mM, final volume = 2 mL, initial molarity = 10 mM
10 x initial volume = 8 x 2
initial volume = 16/10 = 1.6
<u>Hence, Tube B should be made with 1.6 mL of 10 mM KMnO4 stock and 0.4 mL of distilled water to give a solution of 2 mL 8mM KMnO4. </u>
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A. Lightning
Explanation:
Nitrogen is very fundamental for a wide range of life activities in both plant and animals.
Lightning which accompanies thunder during rain storm and other weather phenomenon aids the release of atmospheric nitrogen for life processes. The energy that accompanies a lightning event is mostly electrical in nature. This electrical energy is huge and very massive. As the lightning interacts with free nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere, the molecule is broken down. The free nitrogen which results then combines with oxygen in the atmossphere to form oxides of nitrogen. When oxides of non-metals dissolves in rain water, they make the water rich in nitric acid and can be brought to the biosphere for use by plant and animals.
The four daughter cells resulting from meiosis are haploid and genetically distinct. The daughter cells resulting from mitosis are diploid and identical to the parent cell. ... When the tetrad is broken up and the homologous chromosomes move to opposite poles, the ploidy level is reduced from two to one
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