Write a hypothesis about the effect of mineral composition, acidity, temperature, and surface area on the rate of weathering using the “If…then…because…” format. Be sure to answer the lab question, “What factors influence the rate of weathering?”

Keeping in mind the life cycle of bacteriophages, consider the following problem: during the reproductive cycle of a temperate bacteriophage, the viral dna inserts into the bacterial chromosome where the resultant prophage behaves much like a trojan horse. it can remain quiescent, or it can become lytic and initiate a burst of progeny viruses. several operons maintain the prophage state by interacting with a repressor that keeps the lytic cycle in check. insults (ultraviolet light, for example) to the bacterial cell lead to a partial breakdown of the repressor, which in turn causes the production of enzymes involved in the lytic cycle. as stated in this simple form, would you consider this system of regulation to be operating under positive or negative control?

Explain how the number of similarities between the embryos from early stage to late stage is used as evidence of a common ancestry

Why did rutherford say that bombarding atoms with particles was like "playing with marbles" what