Analyst Questions

Conduction is the movement of heat through a substance by the collision of molecules. It occurs when two object at different temperatures are in contact with each other. Heat flows from the warmer to the cooler object until they are both at the same temperature.

The primary agent of contact metamorphism is heat or temperature.

About 150 - 200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every day or 24 hrs.

This is not an accurate but an estimation by U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity and Global Extinction Rates. It is also said that current extinctions were 'up to 100 times higher than the background rate.'

Wavelength of a wave can be measured with the distance between two nearest crest and crest or nearest troughs. It is measured as armstrong units.

The principle of dominance states that some alleles are dominant, while others are recessive.

Receptors for hearing the organ of corti or the spiral organ is located in the the mammalian cochlea.