Imagine you are a carbon atom. Describe your journey through the carbon cycle be sure to include and explain the key processes in the cycle

(include the following in your answer)
 Describe how the carbon atoms in CO2 absorbed via plant photosynthesis provide the carbon atoms for all of the new carbon compounds a plant produces and uses to build its cells and tissues and to burn for energy.
 Explain how carbon compounds are transformed in five chemical reactions that are critical to the carbon cycle: photosynthesis, cell respiration, decomposition, biosynthesis and combustion.
 Explain how carbon moves from one Earth System sphere (neighborhood) to another
 Explain how carbon changes as it moves from one part of the carbon cycle to another
 Describe where carbon is stored

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Answer 1

Answer:

The carbon cycle describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere. Since our planet and its atmosphere form a closed environment, the amount of carbon in this system does not change.

1. Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis Process

Plants pull in carbon dioxide out of the air through photosynthesis. Even though carbon dioxide makes up less than 1% of the atmosphere, it plays a major role for living things.

With CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere, photosynthesis produces sugars like glucose. This is the plant material that plants synthesize on their own.

If you have the right conditions, this process can repeat for centuries. Not only does photosynthesis pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but it’s fuels all living things as a source of energy.

2. Decomposition

Nutrient Cycle

By mostly using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, plants can grow. In turn, animals consume food for energy using O2 and giving off CO2. Alternatively, they die, decay and decompose repeating for millions of years.

Decomposition is the process of breaking down plants. Over vast periods of time, layers of sediment build on each other. Because of the pressure and heat from within the Earth’s crust, this generates fossil fuels. Much of this happened during the Carboniferous Era.

For example, coal, oil and natural gas (methane) are some of the common fossil fuels. Over the long-term, the decomposition of dead matter generates these fossil fuel products.

Anaerobic decomposition involves bacteria breaking down organic matter such as glucose into CO2 and methane (CH4). The nutrient cycle recycles inorganic and organic material in soil through the process of decomposition. Then, it goes back again through the same process again.

3. Respiration

Cellular Respiration

You and I are both made of carbon. We consume plants. But we also breathe in the air, which has carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.

Animals rely on plants for food, energy and oxygen. Our cells require oxygen to break down the food we consume through cellular respiration.

Once consumed, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere because of cell respiration. In turn, this CO2 produced from respiring cells can be used in photosynthesis again.

In other words, the plants use solar energy to break apart that same carbon dioxide in the air. Through photosynthesis, it uses that same carbon for plant material in turn releasing oxygen again.

4. Combustion

Gas Combustion

Our cars use the energy released by burning fossil fuels. And carbon is also a pollutant as carbon dioxide.

We extract fossil fuels, combustion involves burning them to release energy. But a by-product of combustion is that it releases carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. And too much CO2 increases the greenhouse effect.

And as we deplete our oil reserves adding CO2 into the air daily, this affects the carbon cycle with an imbalance of oxygen and carbon. Carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gases contributing to climate change.

But there is a limit for how much fossil fuels we can extract. Over millions of years, phytoplankton resting on the ocean surface photosynthesizes and takes in CO2.

Using sunlight, it creates a molecule called glucose (C6H12O6) and sinks to bottom of the ocean. Humans discovered these fossil fuels beneath the ocean. We started to drill the ancient plankton, which over millions of years ago, became the oil we use today.

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C) She will have more data from each brand to compare.

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Kierra should consider planting more than one seed from each brand as it will help her to get more data from each brand to compare.

It will be helpful for Kierra to planting more than one seed because if she will plant one seed from each brand then there are chances that the plant might not grow or met some other nutritional defects. But if she plants more than one seed, there are more chances of plants to grow even if some seeds might fail to grow and that will help her with more data from each brand to compare.

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Trachea

Chloroplast

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Answer:

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The correct answer is - ulnar radial notch  and the annular ligament.

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The head of the radius and the ring formed by the ulnar radial notch and the annuar ligament that helps in an essential action or movement of supination and pronation of the upper limbs.

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Answer:

D

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The best way she can gather evidence to support a claim of the bacteria developing from the material left from the earlier experiment would be to repeat the original experiment again, leave some of the Petri-dishes uncleaned, and then see if the same bacteria would grow on the uncleaned Petri dishes.

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An insoluble substance which is the main constituent of plant cell walls and of vegetable fibers such as cotton. It is a polysaccharide consisting of chains of glucose monomers. 'Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin'.

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a. RNA-Seq may miss genes transcribed in a very tissue- and temporal-limited fashion.
b. RNA-Seq relies on genes being homologous across species, but not all genes have homologs.
c. RNA-Seq works only in mammalian cells and therefore cannot be used with model organisms such as Lumbriculus or Drosophila.
d. RNA-Seq may selectively miss noncoding RNAs as compared to mRNAs.

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Answer:

a. RNA-Seq may miss genes transcribed in a very tissue- and temporal-limited fashion.

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RNA-Seq is a methodology used in molecular biology to identify RNA transcripts by using deep-sequencing techniques. RNA-Seq has shown that the genome is often transcribed in the form of non-coding RNA sequences such as, for example, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs), etc., thereby redefining our vision about transcription in eukaryotic organisms. This methodology is based on the conversion of RNAs to cloned cDNA (complementary DNA) fragments that are further sequenced to be mapped against the reference genome. In consequence, tissue-specific-transcripts are not detected by RNA-Seq in cells in which these sequences are not transcribed.

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true

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viruses come in many different shapes and sizes, each one is different

Answer:

True

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(2) Super Snails

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weeks. SpongeBob created a test and gave it to the snails before they started eating the snacks as well as

after three weeks.

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Based on the data provided, do the Super Snail Snacks work? Explain

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Gary

80%

your answer.

Lamy 78% 78%

Bany 82%

Terry 72% 70%

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After

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Answer:

Explanation: Based on the data generated for before and after the experiment using the example of Terry and lamy,

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Lamy 78% 78%

The super snail snack did not work, if there was an increase in there brain performance by a certain percent it could have been said to have worked but there is no visible increase in their performance for Larry it was the same and for Terry there was a decrease in its performance which means the snack is not good for them and should not be recommended as a diet supplement or feed.

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Contains many young stars is the correct answer

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B) Contains young stars

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