The lack of access to the healthy food has caused the growth of Sebastian to slow down. In the case healthy food is provided to him, he can grow into the size he was genetically suited to. This process is known as the canalization. Canalization term is used as the measure of the ability of any given genotype to result in the same phenotype in-spite of the environmental variability.
After crystal violet staining, the Gram-positive bacteria may appear dark blue or violet. The cell wall of gram positive bacteria have thick peptidoglycan layer, thus it retains the crystal violet stain compared to gram negative bacteria.
Because its decayed organisms. So all the nutrients from that decayed organism goes into the soil and makes it rich with nutrients.
If they're more diverse they adapt faster to changing conditions meaning the population is less likely to diminish in the event of a change in their ecosystem.
It’s differing from ribose in having a hydrogen atom instead of an OH on one of the carbon atoms
