Bob is curious to know which plant fertilizer, if any, will help his peppy plants to produce more peppers. He despises to test the 3 brands that the local nursery sells. He sets up four boxes and plants in each box. He gives 30g of one type of each of the three fertilizers to the first three boxes, and adds no fertilizer at all to the fourth box. What is the dependent variable in Bobs Experiment?

Which statement is not an accurate description of meiosis? a) meiosis produces offspring that are genetically diverse. b) meiosis produces offspring that are identical to the parent. c) in sexual reproduction half of the genetic material comes from the father (sperm) and half of the genetic material comes from the mother (egg). d) meiosis decreases the number of chromosomes by half so that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes.