Which population would increase most if the insects were eliminated?

a decomposer
a producer
a primary consumer
a secondary consumer

Keeping in mind the life cycle of bacteriophages, consider the following problem: during the reproductive cycle of a temperate bacteriophage, the viral dna inserts into the bacterial chromosome where the resultant prophage behaves much like a trojan horse. it can remain quiescent, or it can become lytic and initiate a burst of progeny viruses. several operons maintain the prophage state by interacting with a repressor that keeps the lytic cycle in check. insults (ultraviolet light, for example) to the bacterial cell lead to a partial breakdown of the repressor, which in turn causes the production of enzymes involved in the lytic cycle. as stated in this simple form, would you consider this system of regulation to be operating under positive or negative control?

Johnny rode his bike to a friend's house 4 blocks down the street in his neighborhood. he immediately rode back home once he realized his friend was not able to play. what was his displacement for the total bike ride? how did you determine this? what could we use as a reference point to determine he was in motion during his bike ride? why can you use it as a reference point

The distant ancestors of tigers may have had bodies without stripes. use the theory of natural selection to explain how tigers may have evolved to have stripes.