Answer the following question given this paragraph: Q: What term refers to the sequence of community and ecosystem changes after a disturbance? A:
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- progressions
- disturbance succession
- physiological succession
- ecological succession

Answer: ecological succession

Question: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Solar Dependence and Food Production Some organisms can carry out photosynthesis, whereas others cannot. An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food. The Greek roots of the word autotroph mean "self" (auto) "feeder" (troph). Plants are the best-known autotrophs, but others exist, including certain types of bacteria and algae (Figure 5.2). Oceanic algae contribute enormous quantities of food and oxygen to global food chains. Plants are also photoautotrophs, a type of autotroph that uses sunlight and carbon from carbon dioxide to synthesize chemical energy in the form of carbohydrates. All organisms carrying out photosynthesis require sunlight. Q: What living things are considered photoautotrophs because they use sunlight and carbon from carbon dioxide to synthesize chemical energy in the form of carbohydrates? A:
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- protazoa
- bacteria
- moulds
- plants
Answer: plants

input with options: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Animals, like the bee in Figure below , pollinate flowering plants. Many crop plants depend on pollination by wild animals. Q: Bees and other wild animals perform what function on flowering plants, making them vital for crop reproduction? A:
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- pesticide
- irrigation
- fertilizer
- pollenation
output: pollenation

Q: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Electrical Synapse While electrical synapses are fewer in number than chemical synapses, they are found in all nervous systems and play important and unique roles. The mode of neurotransmission in electrical synapses is quite different from that in chemical synapses. In an electrical synapse, the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes are very close together and are actually physically connected by channel proteins forming gap junctions. Gap junctions allow current to pass directly from one cell to the next. In addition to the ions that carry this current, other molecules, such as ATP, can diffuse through the large gap junction pores. There are key differences between chemical and electrical synapses. Because chemical synapses depend on the release of neurotransmitter molecules from synaptic vesicles to pass on their signal, there is an approximately one millisecond delay between when the axon potential reaches the presynaptic terminal and when the neurotransmitter leads to opening of postsynaptic ion channels. Additionally, this signaling is unidirectional. Signaling in electrical synapses, in contrast, is virtually instantaneous (which is important for synapses involved in key reflexes), and some electrical synapses are bidirectional. Electrical synapses are also more reliable as they are less likely to be blocked, and they are important for synchronizing the electrical activity of a group of neurons. For example, electrical synapses in the thalamus are thought to regulate slow-wave sleep, and disruption of these synapses can cause seizures. Q: Although fewer in number than chemical synapses, what type of synapses are found in all nervous systems and play important and unique roles? A:

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- duplicating synapses
- beginning synapses
- dual synapses
- electrical synapses

A: electrical synapses

input: OPTIONS:
- prokaryotic
- enzymes
- eukaryotes
- polymorphisms Now, answer this question: Answer the following question given this paragraph: would not be surprised if the surviving populations experienced serious bottlenecks. The subsequent diversification of the surviving organisms, such as the Dinosauria (which includes the extinct dinosaurs and modern birds) and the Cynodontia, which includes the ancestors of modern mammals, including us, could be due in part to these bottleneck-associated effects, for example, through the removal of competing species or predators. An astreroid impact, known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, occurred ~65 million years ago; it contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs and led to the diversification of mammals (which had first appeared in the fossil record ~160 million years ago). While surviving an asteroid impact (or other dramatic changes in climate) may be random, in other cases who survives a bottleneck is not. Consider the effects of a severe drought or highly virulent bacterial or viral infection; the organisms that survive may have specific phenotypes (and associated genotypes) that significantly influence their chance of survival. In such a case, the effect of the bottleneck event would produce non-random changes in the distribution of genotypes (and alleles) in the post-bottleneck population these selective effects could continue to influence the population in various ways. For example, a trait associated with pathogen resistance may also have negative phenotypic effects. After the pathogen-driven bottleneck, mutations that mitigate the resistance trait's negative effects (and may have their own effects) can be selected. The end result is that traits that would not be selected in the absence of the pathogen, are selected. In addition, the very occurrence of a rapid and extreme reduction in population size has its own effects. For example, it would be expected to increase the effects of genetic drift (see below) and could make finding a mate more difficult. We can identify extreme population reduction events, such as founder effects and bottlenecks, by looking at the variation in genotypes (that... Q: The rate of the accumulation of neutral what serves as a type of population-based biological clock? A:
A:
output: polymorphisms

Question: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Pressure has very little effect on the solubility of solids or liquids, but has a significant effect on the solubility of gases. Gas solubility increases as the partial pressure of a gas above the liquid increases. Suppose a certain volume of water is in a closed container with the space above it occupied by carbon dioxide gas at standard pressure. Some of the CO 2 molecules come into contact with the surface of the water and dissolve into the liquid. Now suppose that more CO 2 is added to the space above the container, causing a pressure increase. More CO 2 molecules are now in contact with the water and so more of them dissolve. Thus the solubility increases as the pressure increases. As with a solid, the CO 2 that is undissolved reaches an equilibrium with the dissolved CO 2 , represented by the following equation. Q: Pressure has a significant effect on the solubility of what state of matter? A:
OPTIONS:
- mixtures
- solids
- water
- gases
Answer:
gases