What does the professor imply about the relationship between an organism's niche and its habitat? A. An organism's niche is exactly the same as its habitat. B. An organism's niche is only partly defined by its habitat. C. An organism's habitat is almost always more complex than its ...
While life always has the potential to mutate and evolve to become competitive in a variety of ecological niches, it’s very difficult to displace an already-established organism that successfully occupies the niche in question. In the absence of a huge selection pressure, the already-dominant ...
Although life appeared early on in Earth’s history, it wasn’t until around 2.7 billion years ago that the cyanobacteria, an early photosynthetic organism, began producing oxygen copiously. A waste product of photosynthesis, oxygen gradually began accumulating in the atmosphere over hundreds of mil...
Cells are basically bags of 1013 interacting components immersed in a chaotic environment; deciphering how these conditions control an organism’s growth is an intellectually intriguing – but puzzling – challenge. III. Lift Off The data used to train Alphafold2 cost an estimated $10 billion to ...