Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each

question 43

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each.
-Biological magnification

• A)Species that remains restricted to the area where it evolved
• B)Species that fail to turn up signs of any individuals after repeated, extensive surveys of its known range
• C)New method of harvesting trees to preserve diversity
• D)Field of biology that documents biodiversity, and seeks way to maintain it to ensure our survival
• E)Species vulnerable to extinction
• F)Work designed to renew or recreate a natural system that has been degraded or destroyed
• G)Places that have species found nowhere else and are under great threat of destruction
• H)Species likely to become endangered in the near future
• I)Chemical pollutant becomes increasingly concentrated as it moves up through food chains
• J)Narrow corridor of vegetation along a stream or river
• K)An organism builds up increasing amounts of a chemical pollutant it its tissues over time

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Definitions:

Chemotaxis

The act of an organism or cell moving towards or away from a chemical signal.

Diapedesis

Passage of blood or any of its formed elements through the intact walls of blood vessels.

Margination

The process by which leukocytes move to the periphery of blood vessel walls in response to inflammation or infection.

Bilirubin

A yellow compound formed by the breakdown of hemoglobin in red blood cells, processed by the liver, and can indicate health issues when found in high concentrations in the bloodstream.