How do the characteristics of living things contribute to an organisms survival

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Answer 1
Answer: Any characteristic, whether a physical trait, a behaviour, a physiological adaptation etc can make an organism more or less likely to survive in a particular environment. 

A dark colour could help a rabbit survive if it lives in a dark forest, because predators can't see it so well, but it would be less likely to survive in the arctic, where the environment is all white and it would show up. 

In terms of the characteristics, think about: does it help the organism get food? Does it help protect the organism from predators? If it does, that organism is more likely to survive, and pass the characteristic on to it's offspring. If a bacterium has a characteristic of not being killed by antibiotics, this will help it to survive and breed.

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In this food chain the __________ has the LEAST energy available to it for its life processes.

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The last one on the chain, the last consumer, would have the least because each consumer gets about 10% less energy than the one before it :)
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Which gland of the endocrine system is located near the stomach and is responsible for producing enzymes and hormones that help with digestion?

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i believe the gland is the pancreas!

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the gland is pancreas

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What are the components of blood?

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The main 3 things that are found in your blood are waste (leftover food), Carbon Dioxide (what you breathe out), and ammonia 

Which factor has the greatest influence on thedevelopment of new, inheritable characteristics?
(1) combinations of genes resulting from mitosis
(2) mutations of genes in reproductive cells
(3) sorting of genes during asexual reproduction
(4) recombining of genes during differentiation

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mutations of genes in reproductive cells has the greatest influence on thedevelopment of new, inheritable characteristics.

A unicellular organism, like a bacterium, is made up of what?

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Unicellular organisms are made up of a single cell

A protein has been used by comparative molecular biologist to show the evolutionary path of how organisms did what things in regards to energy?

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Cytochrome C; it provides evidences that there is similarities in the respiratory pathways for producing ATPs by  all living organisms especially mammals.

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Cytochrome c is located in the intermembranes of mitochondria, and it functions in the transfer of  of one electron in electron transport chain,(ETC) needed for  generation of proton motive force;  for generation of energy in the synthesis of ATPs by ATPase synthase  during chemiosmosis. Its allows oxdation-reduction by the switching of its iron ii to iron iii. during electron transports.However its iron atoms does not undergo oxidation with  oxygen. This feature makes it stable and  an ideal carrier of electrons.

Its amino acid sequences is very similar in all living organisms especially  between mammals(e.g man and chimpanzees)with little variation in few amino acid residues due to mutation.This similarity in its amino acids sequences in all  living  organism together with small molecular size makes it ideal  molecular evidence  for studying comparative molecular evidence of  evolution.

This is because it can be used  to trace  the pathways of respiration to synthesize energy, and therefore to conclude that  most  organisms share common ancestry, since a very similar protein sequence in  a structure(Cytochrome c) participated in unique ETC mechanisms  in all, needed for energy synthesis .