Describe how organisms acquire energy directly or indirectly from sunlight.

Photosynthetic organisms use sunlight to provide the energy necessary to combine carbon dioxide and water to form organic molecules and ATP. Those same photosynthetic organism also use cellular respiration to breakdown those organic molecules whenever there is an energy demand greater than what can be provided by photosynthesis or in the absence of light.

Amutation is basically the change in the gene, caused by alteration of single based units in the dna, or the genes or chromosomes were rearranged in the dna