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Radda [10]
1 year ago
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The illustration shows one of the ways resources are removed from the deep sea. There are many confusing regulations that limit

what and how this can be done. Discuss some of the reasons why these regulations are not standardized yet, and include two possible environmental impacts of these regulations.
Biology
1 answer:
Sonbull [250]1 year ago
6 0
The United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) stipulates that seabed area, which is not within the landmark of any particular country should be regarded as a common natural heritage. Consequently, any mineral found in such an area can be used by anyone. 

However, because of the abundant presence of sea area, and the way national boundaries often conflict, coupled with the problem of illegal mining practices, such laws are difficult to enforce, and so these regulations are not standardized yet.

Some possible impacts of ilegal seabed mining are:
1. Destabilisation of oceanic systems.
2. It constitutes danger to the organisms living in the hydrothermal vents.
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QUESTION 1:

a. They undergo unequal cytoplasmic division during meiosis- eggs

b. Their chromosomes have undergone genetic recombination and independent assortment- both gamete types

c. They contain specialized secretory vesicles called cortical granules just under the plasma membrane- eggs

d. They are characterized by a flagellum. Most of these gametes die without ever completing meiosis- sperm

e. The acrosomal reaction occurs in these cells- sperm

f. They can be derived from any adult cell type- neither gametes

QUESTION 2:

c) The egg is surrounded by a mineralized shell added before the egg exits the body.

Explanation:

a) Female reproductive cells undergo meiosis to produce one large egg and three polar bodies. However, an unequal cytoplasmic division occurs in favour of the large egg.

b) Since both egg cell and sperm cell are produced via meiosis and meiotic division involves the processes of genetic recombination and independent assortment, hence, both gamete types have their chromosomes underg genetic recombination and independent assortment.

c) Egg cells contain specialized secretory vesicles called cortical granules just under the plasma membrane. This cortical granules help prevent more sperms from fertilizing the same egg after it has been fertilized.

d) Sperm cells possess flagellum for motility in the female reproductive tract. Most of the sperm cells die without ever completing meiosis.

e) Sperm cells possess an head-covering structure called ACROSOME. Acrosome reaction is the process undergone by sperm cells permeate the zona pellucida of the egg.

f) Gametes are specifically derived from adult reproductive cells and hence, NEITHER TYPE OF GAMETE can be derived from any adult cell type

QUESTION 2:

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a. His father's mother lacks a widow's peak.

Explanation:

To find out if you are homozygous or heterozygous, you need to find out the genotype of your parents. This you do by looking at their phenotype, their grandparents, uncles. After that it's easy to find out if it's homo or heterozygous. Of course, this need not even be done when it is a characteristic determined by recessive alleles, but in the case of a characteristic determined by dominant alleles, such as widow's peak (W), we must visualize the characteristic in the individual's country.

Since the man, shown in the question above, has widow's peak, so that your child knows if he is homozygous or heterozygous, just look at whether the trait is present in this man's parents. If his mother doesn't have widow's peak, we automatically know that the man is heterozygous, and that was his father's estate. However, if this man's mother has widow's peak and his father does, then the man is homozygous.

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a)  Cell concentration when the dilution rate is one-half of the maximum is  0.598g cell/L

b) the substrate concentration when the dilution rate is 0.8 D_{max}   is 5.2g/l

c) the maximum dilution rate is : 0.41 h⁻¹

d)  the cell productivity at 0.8  D_{max}   is 2.40g cell/L

Explanation:

Given data :

Mass doubling time of Pseudomonas sp. = 2.4 hr

Saturation constant = 1.3 g/L

Cell yield  on acetate = 0.46g cell/g acetate

We are to find;

a. Cell concentration when the dilution rate is one-half of the maximum.

Here, cell yield =amount of cell produced / amount of substrate consumed.

[S] at 0.5D max is determined using the Monod's equation.

Using the formula :

D = \frac {D_{max}[S] }{ks+[S]}

, where D is the dilution rate,

[S] is substrate concentration; &

Ks is the saturation constant.

By replacing the values, we get :

0.5 = \frac{S}{1.3+[S]}

\\\0.65=0.5[S]

[S]=1.3g/L

The cell concentration at 0.5Dmax= cell yield x substrate consumed at 0.5Dmax.

=0.46×1.3

= 0.598g cell/L

b)

Substrate concentration when the dilution rate is 0.8 D_{max}    is calculated as:

D = \frac {D_{max}[S] }{ks+[S]}

0.8=[S]/1.3+[S]

1.04+0.8[S]=[S]

[S]= 5.2g/L

Therefore ,  the substrate concentration when the dilution rate is 0.8 D_{max}   is 5.2g/l

c)

Maximum dilution rate is calculated using the expression D_{max} = \frac{1}{time}

=1/2.4

=0.41 h⁻¹

So, the maximum dilution rate is : 0.41 h⁻¹

d)

The cell productivity at 0.8 D_{max} can be calculated by multiplying the amount  of the cell yield with the amount of the substrate consumed at 0.8D_{max}  

Cell yield = \frac {cell \ productivity \ at \  0.8Dmax}{amount \ of \ substrate\ consumed \at\ 0.8 \D_{max}}

Cell productivity at 0.8 D_{max}    = 0.46 × 5.2

=2.40g cell/L

Therefore, the cell productivity at 0.8  D_{max}   is 2.40g cell/L

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