Exoskeleton

All the sudden, I feel like a million pounds is pressing on my back. I am surrounded by darkness and suffocating. I go to move my legs and find that I now have what feels like an additional fourteen. This isn't a big deal to me, after all, I do lucid dream often. This is just a dream of course. After squirming my way out of a tight spot, I notice that the darkness is simply the sheets covering my face.I can now breathe better. I can't help but laugh at my stupidity and I often enjoy controlling…

bottom jaw is exceptionally pale compared to the rest of their body and their eyes are set within a pale blue rim. http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/triggerfishprofiles/p/prgraytrigger.htm Their mouth is small and beaked, capable of crushing the exoskeletons of their prey. Each jaw has four teeth on either side while the upper jaw also contains six plate-like pharyngeal…

Order Hymenoptera, the third-largest order of insects, comprises the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 species are recognized (Janke 2), with many more remaining to be described. Many factors have led to this order’s success, through the development of wings, their immense range of behavioral adaptation, and namely: their highly complex ways of self-defense, mainly those of the biochemical and morphological nature. From the famous “cow-killer” to the range of stings of the Vespidae,…

An ecosystem is complex set of relationships among the living resources, habitats, and residents of an area. It is a biological community that incorporates human, animals, plants, soil, water, rocks, and microorganisms living together in a environment. Ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic factors. Biotic factors include all of the living things such as plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and humans living in an area. The interactions between them such as competition, predation, mutualism and…

My art I created for the Venus flytrap was created on Photoshop in order to properly illustrate the various characteristics of the carnivorous plant. Originally, I was going to paint the piece for this project, but over the course of the semester, I have been extensively learning the ins and outs of Photoshop in my Digital 1 class, and I decided to switch my project over to digital media. When I first sketched out my idea for this project, I created a very simplistic view of the flytrap catching…

Five Nights at Freddy’s There I stood, in front of the golden sign for the famous restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, ready for my first official shift as there new security guard. The hours would be midnight until six in the morning, easy money to just sit there in an office and watch the cameras. I had just gotten my security licenses and heard from a buddy of mine that they were looking for people to work the graveyard shift over at Freddy’s. Supposedly, something had happened with the…

The Animal Book Chapter 1: Animal characteristics Chapter 2: Body Parts Body plans refer to similarities in development, structure, and function among members of a particular group (phylum). At some point, members of that group share the same body plan during their development process. Which could be a possible explanation for shared structural plans that have been observed in the anatomy and embryology. Timing, pattern, and scale of development determine the organism's shape, and closely…

Pre-Lab Questions 1. A population is a group of the same species that live in the same area and sometimes compete or can mutually benefit one another. A group of organisms will only be considered a population if they live in the same area in space and time. N is the true population size for a given group of organisms. This number is unlikely to be completely known. Whereas N hat is an estimate of population size. 2. There are two methods of sampling, direct and indirect. Direct sampling is an…

The larvae will then enter the pupal stage, the pupae will be on the surface of the water, and breathe with two small tubes. After a few days, or shorter depending on temperature, the pupae metamorphose into an adult. Once the adult emerges, the exoskeleton hardens, and will look for a safe place to dry off. The female mosquitos will then…

Humans are unable to fully perceive the way that they appear to the rest of society. Mirrors provide a reflection of oneself, a backwards or distorted image. Photographs may indicate the way a person looks, but they lack the opinions and thoughts behind processing a picture. This inability to comprehend self in a removed manner is why people strive for a more complete understanding. “Mirrorings” by Lucy Grealy is a piece that examines perception of self, in the context of living with a…