Exam 12: Life in the Ocean

Primary productivity measures the grams of carbon bound into organic material per square meter of ocean surface area per year.

A spontaneous, inheritable change in an organism's genes is called a ____.

In ____, dissolved substances slowly spread out from regions of high concentrations to regions of low concentration.

In photosynthesis, plants use the energy in sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into ____.

In your own words, describe the mechanism of natural selection.