Aspecies of rabbit lives in a meadow where grass plants are readily available during summer months. the rabbits do not stray far from the meadow because the plants supply food and protection from predators. one summer, a fire destroys the plants in the meadow.

as a result of the absence of plants in the meadow, the rabbit population will probably
a) decrease in size.
b) increase and flourish.
c) increase reproduction.
d) switch to a different type of food.

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The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i. e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).

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