In a growing organism, metabolism supplies energy to both maintain existing tissues and create new tissues by cell division. Let Y be the metabolic rate of an organism, Yc the metabolic rate of a single cell, Nc (t) the total number of cells at time t, mc the mass of a cell, and Ec the energy required to create a new cell. The cell properties, Ec, mc, and Yc, are assumed to be constant and invariant with respect to the size of the organism. Thus:

How many chromosomes does each human cell contain? a. 23 chromosomes b. 26 chromosomes c. 43 chromosomes d. 46 chromosomes

This is the process of making a prediction based on the results of prior observations of similar events.

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.