Carbon-14 is used to determine the time an organism was living. The amount of carbon-14 an organism has is constant with
the atmosphere, but when an organism dies the carbon-14 decays at a half-life of 5,730 years. If an archeologist measured the
amount of carbon-14 in an organism and it was 25% of the total amount of atmospheric C-14, what is the age of the organism?
1432.5 years
5,730 years
11,460 years
17,190 years

Which best describes the structure of dna?

Which sentence best describes the relationship between chlorophyll and the chloroplast? a.) chlorophyll is a chemical found in a chloroplast. b.) chloroplast is a chemical found in a chlorophyll. c.) both chlorophyll and chloroplasts are found in animals. d.) both chlorophyll and chloroplasts make carbon dioxide.

To answer this question, researchers studied populations of the dusky salamander (desmognathus ochrophaeus) living on different mountain ranges in the southern appalachian mountains. the researchers tested the reproductive isolation of pairs of salamander populations by leaving one male and one female together and later checking the females for the presence of sperm. four mating combinations were tested for each pair of populations (a and b)—two within the same population (female a with male a and female b with male b) and two between populations (female a with male b and female b with male a). the proportion of successful matings for each mating combination was measured. for example, when all the matings of a particular combination were successful, the researchers gave it a value of 1; when none of the matings were successful, they gave it a value of 0. then the researchers calculated an index of reproductive isolation that ranged from 0 (no isolation) to 2 (full isolation). the reproductive isolation value for two populations is the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type within populations (aa + bb) minus the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type between populations (ab + ba). the table provides data for the geographic distances and reproductive isolation values for 27 pairs of dusky salamander populations.