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4.The crabs that live in the aquatic biome pictured depend on living in shallow water that has a temperature no greater than 60 degrees F. If climate change causes an increase of that water’s temperature to 62 degrees F, what will likely happen to the dolphins in that biome, and why?

The dolphins population may diminish a little.

Explanation:

Crabs are one of the many things dolphins eat, and, as the prompt suggest, they cannot live in temperature greater than 60 degrees F. If climate change makes the temperature 62 degrees F, the crab population will all die. However, note that dolphins do not only eat crabs, as they have other food sources. However, crabs are a major population, so we can see a disruption in the food web, with there being less dolphins than usual.

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an individual’s sex (i.e., whether they are a male or female) is determined by the sex chromosomes. most people have two sex chromosomes, one that is inherited from their mother and one that is inherited from their father. typically, females have two x chromosomes (xx) and males have one x chromosome and one y chromosome (xy). conditions caused by changes (“mutations”) in genes located on the x chromosome are considered x-linked.

x-linked recessive inheritance

most x-linked conditions are recessive. this means that in a person with two x chromosomes (most females), both copies of a gene (i.e., one on each x chromosome) must have a change or mutation whereas in a person with one x chromosome (most males), only one copy of a gene must have a mutation. a female with a mutation in one copy of a gene on the x chromosome is said to be a “carrier” for an x-linked condition. a male with a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome is typically affected with the condition. because females have two copies of the x chromosome and males have only one x chromosome, x-linked recessive diseases are more common among males than females. however, x-linked recessive diseases can occur in both males and females.

for x-linked recessive disorders, an unaffected carrier mother who has a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome can transmit either the x chromosome with this mutation or a “normal” x chromosome to her children. if the father is unaffected, none of her daughters will be affected and all of her daughters will be unaffected—since they will inherit at least one normal x chromosome from their father. however, each daughter will have a 50% chance of being an unaffected carrier like her mother and a 50% chance of both x chromosomes being normal.