BIOLOGY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Hiv, Reverse Transcriptase, Species Richness
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C. tropical biomes provide a refuge for organisms where there is no competition or danger of predation: tropical biomes have high numbers of tree & plant species, but insufficient number and diversity of pollinators. The island is a 13 km2 and covered with beach grasses. On average, this island gets hits by a hurricane every 2 years. The island is home to a herd of small wild horses. Devil"s island (12 km2 ) is also located off the coast of nova scotia, but less than. The main vegetation is low-growing shrubs and mosses. On both islands, there are about 350 bird species and. More recently, fire frequency has drastically decreased to less than 2 fires per century. All of these types of resistance occur in organisms in the domain bacteria. Antibiotic resistance is economically damaging, but herbicide & pesticide resistance does not have economic impacts.
