A student is observing a sample of pond water and provides the following description in her observations.“I see euglena and paramecium swimming around in the drop of water. A daphnia is feeding on a clump of algae. I see air bubbles around the small clump of algae.”Would you describe what the student saw as a community or an ecosystem? Explain what clue(s) helped you decide.

Which ideas did your answer contain? check all that apply. no food for organisms no oxygen in the atmosphere no trees or flowering plants no products based on trees or plants (building materials, medicines, fuels, fibers) no fossil fuels

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.

Explain why it’s important for scientists to study the sun. list at least two challenges researchers face when examining earth’s nearest star.