How does deforestation affect the water cycle? a. it increases the amount of percolation. b. it increases the amount of transpiration. c. it increases the amount of runoff. d. it increases the amount of precipitation.

Keeping in mind the life cycle of bacteriophages, consider the following problem: during the reproductive cycle of a temperate bacteriophage, the viral dna inserts into the bacterial chromosome where the resultant prophage behaves much like a trojan horse. it can remain quiescent, or it can become lytic and initiate a burst of progeny viruses. several operons maintain the prophage state by interacting with a repressor that keeps the lytic cycle in check. insults (ultraviolet light, for example) to the bacterial cell lead to a partial breakdown of the repressor, which in turn causes the production of enzymes involved in the lytic cycle. as stated in this simple form, would you consider this system of regulation to be operating under positive or negative control?

Radiometric dating is used to tell the absolute age of materials by studying the decay rate of radioactive isotopes. the decay rates of isotopes are constant and are expressed as .

Why does competiton happen? a: different organisms have different needsb: there are limited resources in an ecosystemc: there are no predators in an ecosystemd: organisms do not need the same resources (i think it's b but i'm not sure)