PLEASE ANSWER QUICKLY Which characteristic is shared by all mollusks and echinoderms?

live only in salt water

lack a backbone

use tube feet to move

have an open circulatory system

Explain why in any given geographical region, women tend to have lighter skins( by 3-4% on average) than men?

Which of these substances does not protect against invaders in the nonspecific immune response? a. saliva b. mucus c. tears d. urine

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i.e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).