Instructions: Identify the Following

question 8

Short Answer

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Joint-stock company

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Definitions:

Photoautotrophs

Organisms that carry out photosynthesis to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight as an energy source.

Chemoheterotrophs

Organisms that obtain their energy by consuming organic molecules created by other organisms.

Vector

In biology, an organism that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another. In mathematics and physics, it represents a quantity having both magnitude and direction.

Pilus

A thin, hair-like structure on the surface of some bacteria that is involved in adherence to surfaces or in the transfer of genetic material.