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emilie dressaire, professor at trinity college (hartford, ct), and her colleague marcus roper (ucla) discovered that mushrooms create their own microclimates. they create their own moisture through evaporation, which is when a liquid turns into a gas. heat energy is used in this process, leaving the mushrooms cool and moist.

use your own words to summarize the effect of thermal energy on a mushroom's environment and how this sustains life.

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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.

4. rat liver is able to metabolize glucose by both the glycolytic and the pentose phosphate pathway. which of the following are properties of both the glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathway? a. nad+ is involved b. co2 is liberated c. phosphate esters are intermediates d. glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is an intermediate e. fructose 6-phosphate is an intermediate4. rat liver is able to metabolize glucose by both the glycolytic and the pentose phosphate pathway. which of the following are properties of both the glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathway? a. nad+ is involved b. co2 is liberated c. phosphate esters are intermediates d. glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is an intermediate e. fructose 6-phosphate is an intermediate

Radiometric dating is used to tell the absolute age of materials by studying the decay rate of radioactive isotopes. the decay rates of isotopes are constant and are expressed as .