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Where does the CO2 absorbed by trees end up?

Where does the CO2 absorbed by trees end up?


Where does the CO2 absorbed by trees end up?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 10:26 AM PDT

What is the final destination of the CO2 captured by trees? Their bodies? If that, is it released back into the atmosphere if the woods happen to burn down?

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Does an initial infection contain a genetically diverse set of viral particles?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 09:22 AM PDT

Variants have obviously been in the news a lot recently due to COVID, and I'm hoping to understand viral evolution a little better.

Although people usually think of viral infection as if someone is infected with a single variant, and then if their virus experiences a mutation, the next person they infect will have that mutation as well.

I imagine though, that since a mutation would happen in a single viral particle, and that particle's host must have millions of other particles without that mutation, it must take a while for that mutated genome to outcompete its parent genome even just within a host.
Or, I'd imagine it has to spread through several hosts before it is even able to become the dominant viral genome inside a single person?

Am I understanding that wrong?
And if I'm understanding it correctly, then shouldn't any sublineage that is identified to be dominant within even just one host be considered to have outcompeted the parent lineage (at least within a host)?

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Do people with photographic memory remember their entire dream ?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 08:47 AM PDT

Does the Covid- (and other disease) induced loss of smell cause Olfactory Hallucinations to disappear as well?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 08:59 AM PDT

High earth orbit winds, do they change direction or are there places on earth these are relatively constant?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 09:16 AM PDT

I assume around the equator their mixed, and also maybe near mt. Everest, but are their areas on the globe the winds are constant in direction and speed?

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What do we do with sinkholes? How are they covered (are they?) and are they safe to walk (drive, live...) over, once covered? Don't the holes continue to grow?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 12:33 AM PDT

Can you tell the diet of an animal by looking at its muscle and fat tissue?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 09:00 AM PDT

So yeah, I'd really like to know to what degree the diet of an animal is mirrored in its tissue and if we can more or less reconstruct what's being eaten just by looking at the composition of muscle and fat tissue?

edit: the main trigger for this question has been steven gundry's plant paradox book, where he states that grain fed chicken will inevitably contain grain residue. But he gives no source for this statement. So I wondered if it's really possible to look at chicken meat and say "yep, this fella definitely ate soy/corn/wheat/whatever"

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What are the largest local land animals of the Philippines?

Posted: 04 Sep 2021 03:55 AM PDT

What conditions are necessary for temperate evergreen broadleaf forests?

Posted: 03 Sep 2021 02:38 PM PDT

In some temperate and subtropical areas like Southern China, Southern Japan, the Azores, and New Zealand, it's common to have broadleaf forests that never lose their leaves. I think that they are also nicknamed "laurel forests". I know that a region has to have mild winters and abundant rainfall for these forests to occur, but exactly how mild? The Southern US has a very similar climate to Southern China but Southern US forests are deciduous! Are there any more factors that contribute to their occurence?

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