Answer:
Radiation leads to mutations that causes genetic drift and decrease fitness.
Explanation:
Radiation is responsible for changing or altering the DNA sequence within a cell.
Radiation either causes mutation or it leads to cell death.
Most of the ionizing radiation causes mutation within the deep inside of our cells which eventually leads genetic drift which means change in the frequency of the allele in a population over time.
Beneficial mutation confer advantage to the organism. But in this case, the mutation is not beneficial and decreases the fitness of the rodent organisms.
Answer:
B - Python predation has caused a trophic cascade that changed the mosquitoes' niche.
Explanation:
The passage infers that the predation by the Burmese pythons has reduced the population of the animals in Southern Florida thus making the Culex cedecei mosquito to have a reduced number of options to feed from. This is stressed when the author notes that these mosquitoes are now feeding on cotton rats which harbor the Everglades virus that also have the potentials of being transmitted to humans.
Summarily, the passage is saying that the invasion by the Burmese python has changed the niche of most animals including the mosquitoes in the Southern Florida's wild.
A waste product is a product that is made but isn’t necessarily needed eg. A lightbulb will make light energy but it also makes a waste product heat.
Mitosis produces cells that are genetically identical to the parent cell.
Meiosis includes two distinct processes that contribute to the generation of
genetic variation: crossing over shuffles alleles on the same chromosome
into new combinations, whereas the random distribution of maternal and
paternal chromosomes shuffles alleles on different chromosomes into new
<span>combinations.</span>
