4. Read the following sentences: "When the biodiversity of a region declines, many of the organisms critical to this filtering process can disappear. Therefore, pressures on
the freshwater supply can cause biodiversity to decrease, which can cut the drinkable
water supply even further."
Based on this information, what can be concluded?

Chalk is an ionic compound. which is a property of all ionic compounds that makes chalkboard? particularly useful for writing on a a high melting point hardness and brittleness inability to dissolve in water a multicolored appearance

Coat color in cats is determined by genes at several different loci. at one locus on the x chromosome, one allele (x ) encodes black fur and another allele (xo) encodes orange fur. females can be black (x x ), orange (xoxo), or a mixture of orange and black called tortoiseshell (x xo). males are either black (x y) or orange (xoy). bill has a female tortoiseshell cat named patches. one night, patches escapes from bill\'s house, spends the night out, and mates with a stray male. patches later gives birth to the following kittens: one orange male, one black male, two tortoiseshell females, and one orange female. what are the genotypes of patches, the stray male, and the kittens?

2. how does the miller-urey experiment fall short of demonstrating that life can arise from inorganic molecules? explain. a. it doesn't show a leap between a collection of amino acids and a single-celled organism. b. it recreates the conditions that existed at the earth's beginning, but no molecules form as a result. c. it doesn't provide evidence of the formation of amino acids. d. it doesn't show how multicellular organisms developed from unicellular organisms