Working with the Vocabulary: In your own words, explain how a person may taste the bitterness of PTC by using the following vocabulary words in your explanation (choose any order): trait, gene, genotype, phenotype, and alleles. Underline each word as you use it in your explanation. In this explanation, you can treat PTC taste sensitivity as a single-gene trait. [As mentioned in the video, it may be more complex than a single-gene trait.]

humans are now responsible for causing changes in the environment that hurt animals and plant species. we take up more space on earth for our homes and cities. we pollute habitats. human activity often changes or destroys the habitats that plants and animals need to survive.

as the gila monster consumes the eggs or young of the desert cottontail and gambel's quail, thus its main food supply is only accessible for a restricted time duration every year. however, for this, the gila monsters exhibit three adaptations, which elevate their survival rate in the desert condition.  

first, is that they possess huge bodies, and can consume greater concentrations of food during a small period. secondly, they require to feed infrequently as they can accumulate fat in their tails. ultimately, their rate of metabolism is very low, so that they can burn their reservoirs of fat gradually.  

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.

c. the initial amount of money placed in the savings account