Agroup of students run a simulation of resource consumption in which cereal is used to model a resource. the students use tweezers to pick up pieces of cereal one at a time and place them in a cup. the group runs the simulation two times, keeping all factors the same except the number of students allowed to collect the cereal at the same time. what variable are the students most likely testing?

a. conservation method

b. use of technology

c. population size

d. evenness of distribution

What would happen to the nutrients in an ecosystem if decomposers, such as bacteria, didn’t exist there?

Rease is an enzyme used by plants to break down urea (a nitrogen-containing compound) into carbon dioxide and ammonia. urease urea > > > carbon dioxide and ammonia ammonia is broken down by plants into a nitrogen source plants need to grow. thus, plants could not use urea as a nitrogen source unless it was first converted to ammonia. in soybean plants there are two different kinds of urease, one produced in the seeds and the other produced in the leaves of the plant. three types of soybean plants were used in a set of experiments: normal soybeans and two mutant strains, one lacking the urease in the seeds only (strain 1) and one lacking urease in the leaves only (strain 2). experiment 1 separate areas in a field were planted with normal, strain 1, and strain 2 soybeans. all types of soybeans appeared to grow, flower, and produce seeds equally well. there were no externally detectable differences among the strains. experiment 2 small pieces of plant leaves of equal weight were obtained from each type of soybean plant and separately placed on media in culture dishes. tissue growing in this way will become an unorganized clump of cells referred to as callus. to provide a controlled nitrogen source, half the tissue samples of each type were placed on media containing urea, and the other half of the samples were placed on media containing ammonia. after 30 days, the weight gain for each of the callus samples was determined. results are shown in the table below.

One important development during the 3rd trimester that will insulate the infant against changes in temperature is a. the deposition of fat under the skin b. the closing of the septum between c. the atria of the heart d. the beginnings of lung functioning e. the beginnings of light and sound sensing