When bacteria break down the tissue of a rotting log, they ensure that
a) pine trees lose more needles.
b) sick trees die sooner. c) plants in the forest get nutrients.
d) trees get more sunlight.

What do genes contain the code for?

1. mendel observed that pea plants had traits, such as color, that were either “one or the other,” never something in between. discuss the correlation between mendel’s factors, what they might be, and why pea plant traits come in one form or another—e. g., gray or dark red—rather than blended.

Strands of genetic material floating in the nucleus are referred to as