What is the importance of the carbon and nitrogen cycles to ecosystems?

a.
they supply the energy needed for living processes.

b.
they are needed to release the energy stored in food.

c.
they provide materials organisms need to build their bodies.

d.
they ensure that matter only moves within a nonliving environment.

Regarding most of the narrator’s story, which word best describes the tone?

You have just sequenced a new protein found in mice and observe that sulfur-containing cysteine residues occur at regular intervals. what is the significance of this finding? it will be important to include cysteine in the diet of the mice. cysteine residues are required for the formation of α helices and β pleated sheets. cysteine residues are involved in disulfide bridges that form tertiary structure. cysteine causes bends, or angles, to occur in the tertiary structure of proteins.

What is the most abundant vertebrate on earth?