How would the removal of a top predator affect the overall biodiversity of an ecosystem? Biodiversity would - A. increase because fewer dead animals return to the soil and cause more plant life to appear
B. decrease because an increase in consumers leads to a decrease in plant life
C. increase because as the consumers are increased, the ecosystem will become a climax community
D. decrease because an existing organism will evolve to fill the role left behind by the predator

The first generation of offspring from the cross of two parents is called the a.f1 generation b.f2 generation c.short generation d.p generation

This is a typical grassland food web. it is also a small picture of an important cycle on earth: the carbon cycle. describe how the carbon gets into this food web. a) bacteria and fungi, the decomposers, recycle carbon from dead organisms. b) carbon is found in the grass and is passed from one level to the next in this food web. eliminate c) all living things give off carbon dioxide as a by-product of respiration and it is released into the atmosphere. d) plants use carbon dioxide as a reactant in photosynthesis, to make usable chemical energy in the form of a sugar.

What is the role of dna ligase in the elongation of the lagging strand during dna replication?