What are decomposers?

a.
organisms that use the sun’s energy in the process of photosynthesis

b.
organisms that break down waste and dead plant and animal materials

c.
organisms that kill plants and animals in the process of consuming them

d.
organisms that use one another as sources of food in an ecosystem without other food

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?

Nkentucky, intoxicating beverages (beer, whiskey, wine, etc.) are involved to some extent in approximately % of collisions fatal to pedestrians.

What is required in the genotype of an individual to show a recessive trait? a.two recessive alleles b.at least one recessive allele c.no recessive alleles