The investigation was designed to test the researchers’ hypotheses. Evaluate some aspects of their experimental design to determine strengths and weaknesses in their approach. a. Explain why it was important for the researchers to begin their investigation by measuring the temperature at different points on the surface of a turtle egg when it was exposed to an external heat source in only one direction. (2 points)
b. Analyze Figure 2 from the paper. Which data function as a control set? Which data function as an experimental set? Do the error bars add important information that assists in drawing a conclusion from the data? Explain your answers. (3 points)
c. Explain why the researchers ran a series of tests using turtle eggs buried in an outdoor set of nests when they had already run a series of laboratory tests. Did running the outdoor series strengthen or weaken their conclusion? Explain. (3 points)
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For a to be healthy, it has to have lots of different kinds of plants and animals. all of the different types of plants and animals in an ecosystem. name four types of ecosystems from those listed in the video. b) c) d) most living things live here. all living things depend on how an ecosystem like a game of sticks? why should we build new buildings on existing land? name four extinct species from those listed in the video. b) c) d) the best way to wipe out a species is to the largest ecosystem in the world is this percent of the world is covered by water. how many of all species in the world live in the ocean? list five things you can do to increase biodiversity. b) c) d) e) how many species are we losing per hour?

To answer this question, researchers studied populations of the dusky salamander (desmognathus ochrophaeus) living on different mountain ranges in the southern appalachian mountains. the researchers tested the reproductive isolation of pairs of salamander populations by leaving one male and one female together and later checking the females for the presence of sperm. four mating combinations were tested for each pair of populations (a and b)—two within the same population (female a with male a and female b with male b) and two between populations (female a with male b and female b with male a). the proportion of successful matings for each mating combination was measured. for example, when all the matings of a particular combination were successful, the researchers gave it a value of 1; when none of the matings were successful, they gave it a value of 0. then the researchers calculated an index of reproductive isolation that ranged from 0 (no isolation) to 2 (full isolation). the reproductive isolation value for two populations is the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type within populations (aa + bb) minus the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type between populations (ab + ba). the table provides data for the geographic distances and reproductive isolation values for 27 pairs of dusky salamander populations.

You are working in the lab and are working with the same element but with varying isotopes of the element. you are working with c-11, c-13, c-14, and c-15. what is the average atomic mass of this element? (use periodic table) a- 12 b-15 c-14 d-13