Ascientist is designing an investigation to study which color of peppered moth would have a higher survival rate in his neighborhood. what is most likely the test variable (independent variable) in this investigation? a neighborhood environment b survival rate c number of predators d colors of peppered moths

Apopulation of black bears depends on salmon from a stream for food. if a drought causes the stream to run dry one year, how will this likely impact the black bear population?

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

In general, characteristics that an organism survive and reproduce become more common over time. what mechanism of evolution causes this?