Which is a major threat to biodiversity? a. red-billed oxpeckers eat ticks off of impalas' coats in the grasslands of east africa. b. mining in the guinean forests of west africa to provide diamond and gold jewelry for humans. c. acacia trees of central and south america provide food for stinging ants, while the stinging ants snip surrounding plants that grow too close. d. in japan, hummingbird hawkmoths drink nectar from a species of flowering plants and transfer the plants' pollen to other flowering plants of the same species.

Translation can be considered to have three phases or steps: initiation, protein synthesis, and termination. give a detailed summary of the factors and molecules involved with each step and, where appropriate, compare/contrast the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic translation.

In which situation has the independent variable for the experiment been changed? check all that apply. changed from counting the number of duckweed at day 0 and day 14 to counting them every day changed from testing duckweed growth in beakers to testing duckweed growth in large outdoor tanks changed from testing the effect of ph on duckweed growth to testing the effect of light levels on duckweed growth changed from testing the effect of acid ph on duckweed growth to testing the effect of basic ph on duckweed growth

Aheat engine running backward is called a refrigerator if its purpose is to extract heat from a cold reservoir. the same engine running backward is called a heat pump if its purpose is to exhaust warm air into the hot reservoir. heat pumps are widely used for home heating. you can think of a heat pump as a refrigerator that is cooling the already cold outdoors and, with its exhaust heat qh, warming the indoors. perhaps this seems a little silly, but consider the following. electricity can be directly used to heat a home by passing an electric current through a heating coil. this is a direct, 100% conversion of work to heat. that is, 19.0 \rm kw of electric power (generated by doing work at the rate 19.0 kj/s at the power plant) produces heat energy inside the home at a rate of 19.0 kj/s. suppose that the neighbor's home has a heat pump with a coefficient of performance of 4.00, a realistic value. note: with a refrigerator, "what you get" is heat removed. but with a heat pump, "what you get" is heat delivered. so the coefficient of performance of a heat pump is k=qh/win. an average price for electricity is about 40 mj per dollar. a furnace or heat pump will run typically 200 hours per month during the winter. what does one month's heating cost in the home with a 16.0 kw electric heater? what does one month's heating cost in the home of a neighbor who uses a heat pump to provide the same amount of heating?