Flowering plant

climate change and deforestation, people are looking for new and better ways to reverse these issues and create sustainable ways to move forward. Something that is not widely known is that most of the plants along trail sides and even in backyards have some medicinal or nutritional value. These plants include those that are familiar, such as dandelions, violets, and plantains, but include hundreds…

will cause changes to help others in the local community. A garden in Bradford County should be started. Currently, there are nearby gardens, one at the University of Florida in Gainesville teaching organic gardening. Gardeners are allowed to grow plants and vegetables on rented land for a fee. And another located on the Santa Fe campus…

in every ecosystem. Bacteria for instance have a mutualistic relationship with Legumes. Specifically, the bacteria Rhizobia. When the bacteria enters the root, ammonia is created from the nitrogen in the air. And from this, the plant uses it to create amino acids. The plant then provides sugar for the bacteria. A parasitic relationship between bacteria and a human host would be the bacteria Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. This bacteria is known to be extremely contagious and deadly to humans,…

So while I still read about the potential effects the desalination plants, especially the proposed one in Huntington Beach and think that it is a clear decision. I look at the high cost of not only the plant but the water it produces. I look at the alternatives like the subsurface infiltration gallery that has been so effective in Japan and doesn’t have the same drastic effects on ocean…

Hummingbirds migrate south during the winter, but due to artificial feeders some hummingbirds migrate to the east. If not provided with enough food and shelter from the cold hummingbirds will die. The effects on the climate alter the pattern of plants blooming. If the plants change the time when they bloom the hummingbird may be too soon or too late to pollinate the…

pineapples a long time before North, Central, or South America were "found". Christopher Columbus was among the essential people from the old world to taste the results of the dirt is kept that he passed on it down to Europe with him. By then, the plants were being produced in Mexico and in…

response of a plant to touch or vibration) and how it utilizes the transport of K+ in the pulvinar cells (the thickening at the base of a leaflet that causes the movement of the leaflet based on differing turgor pressure in these cells). They tested many hypotheses regarding the seismonastic reaction in the Mimosa pudica, one of which tested whether there was an increased efflux of K+ from pulvinar cells during stimulation. The experimenters used all home-grown Mimosa pudica (sensitive…

Description: One of the most critically endangered big cats with only 35 left in the world. They have been critically endangered since 1996. If the amur leopard becomes fully extinct this will cause the ecosystem to become unstable. Reasons why they are critically endangered/threats include habitat loss. It is estimated that between 1970-1983, the Amur leopard lost an 80% of its territory. They will have nowhere else to go. deforestation cutting down trees, Poaching illegal trade, prey being…

All wood in growing trees contains a considerable amount of water which is commonly called sap. Water is contained in wood as either bound water or free water. The bound water is held within cell walls by bonding forces between water and cellulose molecules, while the free water is contained in the cell cavities and is not held by these forces. The amount of water in wood can be calculated and expressed as a percent of the dry weight is called the “Moisture Content” (MC). The hygroscopic nature…

Our planet is in the middle of the sixth mass extinction of mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and plants. We are currently experiencing the worst case of extinction than the dinosaurs which was 65 million years ago. Extinction may be a natural event but there has been a recent increase of species extinction from 1000 to 10,000 per year. This means in the future we may lose species every day [1]. Before extinction was caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruption and climate change but this…