Coral reefs support more species per unit area than any other marine environment on Earth. What is one way coral reefs are important to the health
of the biosphere?
A. Coral reefs recycle nutrients, especially carbon.
B. Coral reefs drain nearby wetlands of stagnant water.
C. Coral reefs thrive in specific environmental conditions.
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D. Coral reefs attract millions of tourists each year,

New york city has 2,181 inhabitants per square mile. the state of alaska has 1.03 inhabitants per square mile. ecologists would say alaska has a low exponential growth population density birth rate carrying capacity

The intervention of extraterrestrials has been used to explain the bermuda triangle, a region of the atlantic ocean where ships and planes are frequently lost, leaving no evidence behind. how would this explanation best be characterized?

Which is an advantage of having memory cells when a pathogen is encountered for a second time. a) the memory cells are what proliferate into clones of cells in response to the binding of an antigen. b) memory cells are vital to the primary immune response in that they immediately recognize pathogens even at the first encounter. c) memory cells are essentially effector cells that are short lived and attack antigens even without having a receptor specific to that antigen. d) it ensures that more lymphocytes with a receptor specific to a particular antigen will be present than in a host that had never encountered that pathogen.