Select all that apply: carbohydrates : in the body are primarily fatsb: are primarily sugars and starchesc: are the most readily available source of energy for organismsd: are the largest of the four main biological macromolecules

Rank the three variables in terms of how strongly they affect the "species" composition of the bacterial communities. place the variable with the weakest effect on the left and the variable with the strongest effect on the right.

Which of the following lines of evidence would best support your assertion that a particular plant is an angiosperm? a) it produces seeds. b) it retains its fertilized egg within its archaegonium. c) it lacks gametangia. d) it undergoes alternation of generations.

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).