8. Plants are complex organisms that are composed of multiple layers of organization. Which of the following best represents the organization of the root system from most complex to least complex?

Vegetation that grows along the floors of tropical and temperate forests is called undergrowth. how is the undergrowth of a tropical rain forest most likely to differ from the undergrowth of a temperate forest? a. a tropical rain forest's undergrowth most likely experiences periods of dormancy during colder weather. b. a tropical rain forest's undergrowth most likely experiences periods of dormancy during rainy weather. c. the undergrowth of a tropical rain forest most likely requires less sunlight. d. the undergrowth of a tropical rain forest most likely requires more sunlight.

This is a typical grassland food web. it is also a small picture of an important cycle on earth: the carbon cycle. describe how the carbon gets into this food web. a) bacteria and fungi, the decomposers, recycle carbon from dead organisms. b) carbon is found in the grass and is passed from one level to the next in this food web. eliminate c) all living things give off carbon dioxide as a by-product of respiration and it is released into the atmosphere. d) plants use carbon dioxide as a reactant in photosynthesis, to make usable chemical energy in the form of a sugar.

Which of the following factors would not contribute to allopatric speciation? a) a population becomes geographically isolated from the parent population.b) the separated population is small, and genetic drift occurs.c) the isolated population is exposed to different selection pressures than the ancestral population.d) different mutations begin to distinguish the gene pools of the separated populations.e) gene flow between the two populations is extensive.