What is the difference between a Missense mutation and a silent mutation?

Can bacteria reproduce in a way such that when you start out with two bacteria, you get five bacteria? why or why not? * a. yes, because bacteria reproduce sexually, and can produce any number of offspring, just as humans do. b. no, because bacteria grow at an exponential rate. c. no, because when bacteria reproduce, they split into two parts, and two bacteria splitting would result in four bacteria.

The more rapidly sedimentation occurs, the more likely it is that the remains will successfully form a fossil. as sedimentation continues, what happens to the amount of weight settling onto the organism? stays the same increases decreases cuts in half

Body temperature is tightly regulated in mammals for example when external temperatures drop too much the body of a mammal response by in order to it's core temperature.