Suppose a deposit of gold-containing rock was discovered, and geologists determined that the amount of gold in the rock was too little to be worth the expense of mining it. Would this gold deposit be called gold ore

the diploid number of chromosomes is sometimes represented by the symbol 2n. for the fruit fly, the diploid number is 8, which can be written as 2n = 8, where n represents twice the number of chromosomes in a sperm or egg cell.

they fuse to form they have half as many chromosomes as a somatic cell of the same individual. b

well for one plants are always the producer, so a is the answer. a wolf is more of the consumer(predator) and the deer is the prey so i know those two are out of the question. also mushrooms are fungi/fungus so a is the producer.