Re: Broadcast TV Fee. Pretty much everyone on cable tv pays the Broadcast TV fee, and it's not just particular to Comcast. Broadcast stations [your local stations] charge the cable companies fees to carry their programs. In turn, cable companies pass those fees along to the customers. All cable tiers carry the broadcast channels. So, basically, yes, you'll be paying that $5 Broadcast TV fee.
Growth factors are organized into three categories. Some bacteria (e.g. E. coli) do not require any growth factors: they can synthesize all essential purines, pyrimidines, amino acids and vitamins, starting with their carbon source, as part of their own intermediary metabolism.
So what's not an adaptation? The answer: a lot of things. One example is vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a feature that was an adaptation for the organism's ancestor, but that evolved to be non-functional because the organism's environment changed. Fish species that live in completely dark caves have vestigial, non-functional eyes.