The figure below shows a food chain that might exist in a meadow. Meadow Food Chain
Owl
Green plants Beetle
Toad
Snake
Which organism is the primary consumer in this food chain?
А
owl
B
toad
с
beetle
plant leaf

Astudent wants to test the hypothesis that fertilizer improves the growth rate of grass seeds. to test this hypothesis, the student put the same amount of grass seed in 3 containers with the same type of soil. the student measured the growth at the end of the week. all plants received equal amounts of water and sunlight. if you were asked to graph this data, what would you place on the x-axis? a. fertilizer b. water c. plant growth d. week one

Which of the following is a reason why early living organisms on earth could not have survived on the surface? 1. the lack of an ozone layer 2. the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere 3. the fact that these organisms were single-celled

14) whenever diploid populations are in hardy-weinberg equilibrium at a particular locus a) the allele's frequency should not change from one generation to the next, but its representation in homozygous and heterozygous genotypes may change. b) natural selection, gene flow, and genetic drift are acting equally to change an allele's frequency. c) this means that, at this locus, two alleles are present in equal proportions. d) the population itself is not evolving, but individuals within the population may be evolving.