The Revised Universal Soil-Loss Equation (RUSLE)differs from USLE in All

question 24

Multiple Choice

The revised universal soil-loss equation (RUSLE) differs from USLE in all ways but one of the following.

• A)reflects the effects of raindrops striking the soil
• B)accounts for seasonal changes such as freezing and thawing
• C)divides the year into 15 day intervals for the cropping sequence factor
• D)uses greatly modified soil erodibility factors
• E)considers the effects of surface or near-surface residues at different times of the year

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Definitions:

Heritability

A measure of how much of the variation in a trait within a population is due to genetic differences among individuals in that population.

Twin Studies

Studies of the heritability of a disorder by comparing concordance rates between monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

Identical Twins

Twins resulting from the splitting of a single fertilized egg, sharing the same genetic material and thus being genetically identical.

Genes

Units of heredity made up of DNA that act as instructions to make molecules called proteins, affecting how organisms inherit traits from their parents.