Thermal pollution kills fish primarily because ? a: warm water holds less oxygen. b: all fish need cool water. c: fish eggs overheat. d: fish swim too close to pipes.

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i.e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).

Which zone within the open-ocean zone is home to the most organisms? deep zone surface zone intertidal zone transition zone

The mixture of sperm and fluids from the seminal vesicles, prostate gland, and cowper's glands is called