Genetically-modified organisms (gmos) are currently being developed for agriculture. currently commercialized gm crops in the u. s. include soy (94%), cotton (90%), canola (90%), sugar beets (95%), corn (88%), and hawaiian papaya (more than 50%). the use of gmo crops can reduce agricultural costs to farmers and provide greater crop-yields, possibly with issues of food shortages. although this sounds great, there is still a lot of controversy around the use of gmos. which of these is a valid argument on why we should not use gmos in our food? a) gmos do not have any nutritional value b) gmo crops are always more expensive to buy c) gmo crops are invasive and take over the habitat of local crops d) there is not enough research on long-term effects of eating gmos

Arational expression has been simplified below. (x-5) (x+1)/3(x+1) = x-5/3 for what values of x are the two expressions equal

Rease is an enzyme used by plants to break down urea (a nitrogen-containing compound) into carbon dioxide and ammonia. urease urea > > > carbon dioxide and ammonia ammonia is broken down by plants into a nitrogen source plants need to grow. thus, plants could not use urea as a nitrogen source unless it was first converted to ammonia. in soybean plants there are two different kinds of urease, one produced in the seeds and the other produced in the leaves of the plant. three types of soybean plants were used in a set of experiments: normal soybeans and two mutant strains, one lacking the urease in the seeds only (strain 1) and one lacking urease in the leaves only (strain 2). experiment 1 separate areas in a field were planted with normal, strain 1, and strain 2 soybeans. all types of soybeans appeared to grow, flower, and produce seeds equally well. there were no externally detectable differences among the strains. experiment 2 small pieces of plant leaves of equal weight were obtained from each type of soybean plant and separately placed on media in culture dishes. tissue growing in this way will become an unorganized clump of cells referred to as callus. to provide a controlled nitrogen source, half the tissue samples of each type were placed on media containing urea, and the other half of the samples were placed on media containing ammonia. after 30 days, the weight gain for each of the callus samples was determined. results are shown in the table below.

Is there any species that went extinct in recent years due to natural causes (not caused by human interaction). if so, what caused it?