Answer:
Indices are used to study fossil specimens and compare them against each other. They are based on concept of ratio hence better than simple measurements when it comes to comparative analysis. They compensate for the problems caused by other variable factors like size or specimen.
For example, to estimate if an organism is long or round headed simple measurement of cranial length or breadth can be done and the result can be given according to the selected parameter. However some specimens will have longer breadth than length and some will have longer length than breadth. So, it is better to measure both the parameters and find out their ratio. Hence, cranial index is used which is given by: (Cranial breadth/Cranial length)*100.
Answer:
Testing Platismatia glauca could help scientists understand which pollutants have the largest effect on lichen populations. It also may help scientists understand the current pollutant levels in the atmosphere compared to the population of lichens on the trees. This information can help them more accurately predict population changes over time.
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Weather conditions, temperature, and Food availability
Answer:
C. II and IV only
Explanation:
X linked recessive inheritance follows the criss-cross pattern in which affected mothers always have affected sons as sons get their X chromosome from mothers only. Condition "II" can not be true for X linked inheritance as hemophiliac mothers (XhXh) should have hemophiliac sons (XhY) only.
Daughters get one copy of their X chromosome from the father and the other from mother. To have affected daughters, mother should be carrier or hemophiliac and the father should be hemophiliac (XhY). This would make it possible for both the parent to transmit one copy of X chromosome with the gene to daughters (XhXh).
Ingestion of foreign substances by macrophages and yeast cells by an amoeba is known as <u>Phagocytosis</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Phagocytosis that is the name given to the process of ingestion of foreign particles by macrophages. In human body the white blood cells does this function. Macrophages is found in all the tissues. Any foreign particle entering the body is engulfed by this process hence protecting the organisms.
Once a bacteria enters the body it is at once detected and recognised as the foreign particle. Then it is attached to the phagocyte. Then it is engulfed into a vesicle called phagosome. Then this is killed by the process of phagocytosis.