Ecological succession is the — a.
process of change to an ecological community over time

b.
passing down of advantageous traits to offspring

c.
an organism's ability to survive an environmental change

d.
the creation of a new species within an ecosystem

19. scientists use meteorites that hit earth to provide evidence of the composition of earth's interior because they hypothesize that

Coat color in cats is determined by genes at several different loci. at one locus on the x chromosome, one allele (x ) encodes black fur and another allele (xo) encodes orange fur. females can be black (x x ), orange (xoxo), or a mixture of orange and black called tortoiseshell (x xo). males are either black (x y) or orange (xoy). bill has a female tortoiseshell cat named patches. one night, patches escapes from bill\'s house, spends the night out, and mates with a stray male. patches later gives birth to the following kittens: one orange male, one black male, two tortoiseshell females, and one orange female. what are the genotypes of patches, the stray male, and the kittens?

Which type of landform forms at the plate boundary as a result of divergent stress