Blue-green algae plays an important an important part in the nitrogen cycle by recycling ammonia into nitrates and by "fixing" elemental nitrogen into a form that can be used by organisms. a decrease in this alga would have a large negative impact on the marine environment. however, not all algae play the same role in the environment. explain how a bloom (a drastic increase) of algae can cause problems in the marine environment.

Chapter 11.1 & 11.2 notes section 11.1 1. every living thing has a set of ? inherited from its parents. 2. after becoming a ? , mendel spent several years studying ? and mathematics at the university of vienna. 3. during sexual reproduction, male and female reproductive cells join, a process known as ? . 4. pea flowers are normally ? , which means that sperm cells in pollen fertilize the egg cells in the ? flowers. 5. when mendel crossed plants with ? characters for the same trait, the resulting offspring had only one of the characters. 6. a ? is a specific characteristic, such as seed color or plant height, that varies from one individual to another. 7. filius and filia are the latin words for ? and ? . 8. the offspring of crosses between parents with different traits are called ? . 9.to mendel's surprise, all of the offspring had the character of only ? of the parents. 10. mendel's first conclusion was that biological inheritance is determined by ? that are ? from one generation to the next. 11. scientist calls the chemical factors that determine traits ? . 12. mendel's second conclusion is the ? . 13. the principle of dominance states that some alleles are ? and others are ? . 14. when mendel allowed the f1 plants to reproduce by self-pollination the traits controlled by ? alleles reappeared in about ? of the f2 plants in each cross.

Cathy hypothesized that corn would not grow in mud. to test this hypothesis, she took corn kernels and placed 5 in mud, 3 in soil, and 2 in water. to her surprise, the kernels in the mud grew faster than the kernels in the soil. what error might have caused these unexpected results? a. wrong hypothesis b. not enough variables c. undefined control d. too many variables

Which skeletal system is represented by the shaded portion of the skeleton? spongy skeleton compact skeleton axial skeleton appendicular skeleton