The cultural makeup of the u. s. population has changed over the past few years because of immigration and other factors. such long-term changes in the genetic and cultural makeup of a population are part of?

Normative history-graded influences.

Explanation:

Normative history-graded influences are events that affect the majority of the people in a community making a change in their culture. Inmigration is a factor that changes a culture because it introduces new traditions, points of view, objects, etc. Another thing that can make a normative history-graded influence is when people from the United States have children with inmigrants or inmigrants' descendants because they are modifying the DNA of a population that has certain characteristics

poor water quality affects most estuarine organisms, including commercially important fish and shellfish. the pollutants that have the greatest impact on the health of estuaries include toxic substances like chemicals and heavy metals, nutrient pollution (or eutrophication), and pathogens such as bacteria or viruses.

the diploid number of chromosomes is sometimes represented by the symbol 2n. for the fruit fly, the diploid number is 8, which can be written as 2n = 8, where n represents twice the number of chromosomes in a sperm or egg cell.