Aspecies of malaria-carrying mosquito lives in a forest in which two species of monkeys, a and b, coexist. species a is immune to malaria, but species b is not. the malaria-carrying mosquito is the chief food for a particular kind of bird in the forest.

According to theories of how life began, how did early organic molecules begin to separate from the outside world? a: specialized enzymes were required b: chains of amino acids created a barrier c: formation of microspheres or vesicles d: rna catalyzed the formation of membranes

Which statement is not an accurate description of meiosis? a) meiosis produces offspring that are genetically diverse. b) meiosis produces offspring that are identical to the parent. c) in sexual reproduction half of the genetic material comes from the father (sperm) and half of the genetic material comes from the mother (egg). d) meiosis decreases the number of chromosomes by half so that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes.

The diagram below shows the layers of a rock having a trilobite: a rock column labeled rock is shown. the column has three layers. the bottommost layer of the rock has one shaded rhomboid shape, the middle layer has a rhombus with a diagonal along with two identical organisms marked as, trilobite, in the key, the top layer has two semicircles. a key is shown on the right side of the diagram. the shaded rhombus is marked as a, the rhombus with the diagonal is marked as b, the semicircle is marked as c which statement about the rock fossils is true?