Cosmopolitan species

Do you like to go to the beach and have some fun? If you do, you may be harming an important living creature without noticing. Some scientists are worried about damaged coral reefs that are affecting itself and other marine creatures. Other scientists are looking for ways to stop the coral reefs from declining. Some people know what to do but actually do the wrong thing. So, I think it's important that people know and do the right thing. In the next few paragraphs, I will be explaining how we…

Science Fair Research Paper Plants are one of the most diverse and important organisms that live on this planet. They provide us with energy, clean air to breathe, and sometimes even valuable, life-saving medicine. It seems fit, then, that we should know more about these incredible life forms and how we can grow them in our own backyards. To fully understand the being of the plant, we must first look in the micro world of the plant cell. There are three distinct parts of the plant with…

offspring. As this goes on through generations, the population can evolve so that every bedbug carries the resistance mutations, an outcome which is great for the bugs but frustrating for people trying to get rid of them. Hundreds if not thousands of species have gone through small changes within a population. This is also known as microevolution. There are some bedbugs that have evolved resistance genes that are most active in their outer shell, fighting off pesticides. Biologists have…

How Species Adaptations Affect Their Survival In Respect To The Environment Background Information What are adaptations and what causes them to occur? Adaptations occur within a species, or kind. Adaptations are what can either be an advantage or disadvantage for as an example an animal such as an Giraffe. A Giraffe has a long neck as in the past, food wasn't as scarce and was easier to find lower towards the ground, but over a long period of time, the Giraffes developed a special adaptations…

The extinction of humanity has always been a topic of discussion in literature throughout the ages and still even in modern works. Humanity being wiped out by a great flood is an archetype that frequently appears throughout classical literature. In both “Noah and the Flood” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh” a man is tasked with building an ark to be the last of humanity and save all other life with him. This tale of a flood wiping out humanity was originally the same story, but over time has been…

pinniped animal, belonging to the genus Neophoca and the species cinerea.. Within this report there will be discussion of why Australian Sea Lions are considered a keystone species, including what their role is in resourcing, dominating, as well as maintaining the ecosystem they populate; scenarios of what would happen if they went extinct; how humans have impacted them; and how humans can resolve their activities. Why it is a Keystone Species: It has been proven that Australian Sea Lions create…

Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to inform the audience more about Zebras Specific purpose: The specific purpose is to inform people why we can’t own them as regular pets and how important their stripes Introduction: I. Have you ever wondered if Zebras are black with white stripes or white with black stripes? II. For a long time now it there has been several arguments whether zebras are black with white stripes or white with black stripes. III. How do Zebras stripes protect them form…

Isopods that live on land are called Armadillidium Vulgare, also known as pill bugs. Pill bugs consume dead organisms in decomposing soil which are acidic in nature. This trait makes these organisms beneficial to our environment, by getting rid of all the dead and decomposing organisms. Pesticides are commonly used to deter pests from eating crops, and could be getting rid of beneficial organisms such as pill bugs instead. An experiment was performed to determine the preference of pill bugs in…

The RNA World: The Implications and Problems it Presents Brandon Gutierrez Abstract The origin of life on Earth is a difficult topic to analyze with the limited data available in modern science. Many hypothesis have been suggested to explain how life may have arisen from an abiotic environment, but the topic is still far from fully understood. One generally accepted hypothesis to explain the origin of life involves an RNA world in which RNA was synthesized abiotically and carried out both the…

Temperature plays a crucial role in the survival of the fungus as well as in the spread of the disease. Poole et al., 2013 recently reported that there was a significant effect of the temperature on the distribution and the prevalence of the Fusarium species. From the survey conducted in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, F.pseudograminearum was more prevalent in the regions of lower elevations with lower moisture and higher temperature while F. culmorum was more prominent in the higher…