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Peahens often choose males for the quality of their trains -- the quantity, size, and distribution of the colorful eyespots. Experiments show that offspring of males with more eyespots are bigger at birth and better at surviving in the wild than offspring of birds with fewer eyespots.
Certain fossils, called index fossils, help geologists match rock layers. To be useful as an index fossil, a fossil must be widely distributed and represent a type of organism that existed for a brief time period. Index fossils are useful because they tell the relative ages of the rock layers in which they occur.
Grinding pepper is not an example of a chemical change.
The process of importing free dna from the environment is called _transformation_.
The type of dna uptake that is dependent on viruses is called _transduction_.
The type of dna uptake that is dependent on transferable plasmids is called _cconjugation_.
