If the hawk were to removed from the food chain, which consumer would increase in population

Everything from the hawk's diet

Explanation:

Mice, rats, shrews, without their main predator, the ecosystem would become unbalanced by the increasing overpopulation of rodents and most likely small snakes that are also on hawks' diet. Another consumer would probably be other animals that eat the hawks' diet. Without a competing consumer, the, let's say snake, population would grow larger.

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regulation of gene expression. gene expression can be regulated by various cellular processes with the aim to control the amount and nature of the expressed genes. these regulatory proteins bind to dna and send signals that indirectly control the rate of gene expression

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