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.

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.

other information encoded in your genes might distinguish you from the others in the group