Which of the following describes environmental parameters that are most important to consider prior to building a housing development? the number of people the development would house the impact that clearing the land would have on local wildlife the amount of money the new residents would be assessed in taxes the average precipitation the area receives

Which element forms the basis of all organic organisms a carbon b oxygen c hydrogen d nitrogen

Several bodily responses are described below. for each response, determine what caused the change in homeostasis. body starts to sweat breathing rate increases amount of saliva produced changes body starts to shiver

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the correspondingbones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. however, genetic data suggest that all three kindsof organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. which of the following is the mostlikely explanation for these data? a) humans and bats evolved by natural selection, and whales evolved by lamarckian mechanisms. b) forelimb evolution was adaptive in people and bats, but not in whales. c) natural selection in an aquatic environment resulted in significant changes to whale forelimb anatomy. d) genes mutate faster in whales than in humans or bats. e) whales are not properly classified as mammals.