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Offline PurpleKnife

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Biology Help Please ??
« on: June 05, 2009, 08:07:48 am »
In Ecology, I don't understand the food chain which demonstrates energy flow.

Please explain.

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2009, 08:12:01 am »
Grass-->Goat--->Fox

in the following food chain energy is transferred from the grass to the goat and then from the goat to the fox.


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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2009, 08:14:00 am »
In Ecology, I don't understand the food chain which demonstrates energy flow.

Please explain.

ANDDD as each organism is eaten, it looses 90% of the energy. So each trophic level, wil have less and less energy, hence the biomass getting smaller, as it goes up

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 08:18:53 am »
if sewage leaks into the lake
can someone tell me wot happens?

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2009, 08:21:07 am »
if sewage leaks into the lake
can someone tell me wot happens?

oxygen level will decreease.
plants will die.
so will fish.
disease. ***

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2009, 08:22:35 am »
if sewage leaks into the lake
can someone tell me wot happens?

oxygen level will decreease.
plants will die.
so will fish.
disease. ***

but algae increase right?

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2009, 08:25:03 am »
sewage as a source of nitrate (nitrogen compounds) it will be considered as fertilisers which will be used by aquatic plants as algae to grow with high rate...they will grow to a great extent where they will block light from reaching the aquatic plants on the river bed or underwater....they will eventually die, so the aerobic bacteria will on them and so they will consume oxygen in the water......decreasing its concentration so the aquatic plants or animals will die due to suffocation or migrate. This is call EUTROPHICATION.

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2009, 08:26:32 am »
algae increases i think..


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« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2009, 08:33:13 am »
yes they DO!

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2009, 08:41:38 am »
if sewage leaks into the lake
can someone tell me wot happens?

oxygen level will decreease.
plants will die.
so will fish.
disease. ***

but algae increase right?


Algae increase, and they rot, on the sea bed. therefore the bacteria use up all the oxygen therefore the fish dont have enough oxygen and die, this is called eutrophication

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2009, 08:46:52 am »
please help:O/N 2007, paper 1, Question No.29
And can u please tell me the reason the answer is not B, because I  think since there is light, the plant should bend, as auxin will be destroyed....

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2009, 08:47:22 am »
Whos been -repping me.
What did i do??!

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2009, 08:52:24 am »
Whos been -repping me.
What did i do??!

hello little girl... r u ready?

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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2009, 08:52:56 am »
Whos been -repping me.
What did i do??!

someones been doing the same thing 2 me
its very annoying

anywayz thank u all
now i got it
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Re: Biology Help Please ??
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2009, 08:55:46 am »
Whos been -repping me.
What did i do??!

hello little girl... r u ready?


im sorry but that just sounded wrong  :P