Which of the following best explains how a biotic factor can control the population of a species in an ecosystem?

a sudden drop in temperature may cause many individuals in a population to die.
competition between two species may force one of them to migrate to survive.
disease may lead to a decline in the reproductive rate of the species’ main predator.
lack of water during a drought may cause many of the individuals in a population to die.

Determine if the following statement is true or false. if true, choose true. if false, choose the rewording that is true. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited together so that they always stay together. according to the law of independent assortment, offspring express a combination of their parents' traits. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for a characteristic split during meiosis and combine during fertilization. true according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited independently so that no two alleles stay together.

How is ribosomal rna useful as a molecular clock? a. a large portion of the dna ring is not vital to structure or function, allowing it to accumulate neutral mutations. b. its rate of mutation increases over time as organisms continue to evolve and differentiate from each other. c. a slow mutation rate makes it useful for determining evolutionary relationships between ancient species. d. it is only found in select organisms, making it easier to compare relationships between species that have it.

What would happen if the krill were removed from the food web