Genus

After reading Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, one may ask, how does this book fit into a course addressing genus, genius, and gender? For one, this course focuses on the female geniuses of literature and how they fall into the genus, which is driven by the male gender. In this respect, the narrator in Housekeeping is a young girl, Ruth, who happens to be the genius in this story. She tells us, in quite detail, the story of how her family came to reside in the town of Fingerbone, and the struggles she and her sister Lucille went through after their mother and grandmother passed away. Ruth starts out the story by telling us, the reader, about her grandfather, whom she never had the pleasure of knowing. She tells us of his paintings of…

The Santa Gertrudis is a composite breed of cattle, consisting of 5/8 Shorthorn and 3/8 Brahman, which was developed on the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas. The breed is characterized by their deep red cherry color, sometimes displaying white or cream colors on their underline. Their coats are short and slick. They have moderate to long ears and bulls display a slight hump at the shoulders. This breed can be horned or polled. Santa Gertrudis are considered a Bos Indicus breed, or more commonly,…

The top two levels of the taxonomy involve synthesis and evaluation. Synthesis involves the collection of information in relation to a particular subject and organizing them in a manner that clearly showcases the differences or similarities that exist. Evaluation involves the in-depth assessment of information that has been collected and the development of conclusions based on existing theories. Both of these are important when thinking and communicating within a scholarly environment. Research…

Since the emergence of the genus Homo, the hominins went through great patterns of evolution over generations. Through series of adaptations, the genus Homo spread in various geographic locations and eventually emerged as anatomically modern humans. With the allele frequency changes that evolved in the genus Homo, there is key evidence that microevolution led to macroevolution. From speciation to extinction, the modern synthesis helps us explain not only the mechanisms of evolution and the…

Genus Dysteria (Huxley, 1857) Synonyms: Aegyria Ehrenberg, 1838; Ervilia Dujardin, 1841 This genus was first reported by Huxley in 1857. It is a member of class Phyllopharyngea shows characters such as ciliated stage with somatic kineties mostly as monokinetids that each have a lateral kinetodesmal fibril, a reduced or absent, transverse microtubular ribbon. This genus belongs to subclass Phyllopharyngia show characters such as trophonts free-swimming, may be sessile but usually not…

Bergey’s manual was used to identify the unknown to be either from genus Flavimonas also known as Pseudomonas or Frateuria based on the results of the experiments. Multiple different experiments were conducted to identify the unknown, however only seven characteristics of the unknown were discovered from the data in Bergey’s manual. Not all test performed in lab were used due to the fact that some tests were not listed on the manual, while others did not apply to the category of the bacteria.…

Homo sapiens, or our modern people, are the only living species in homo genus these days. However, as we all known, before a long time like 100,000 years ago, the primitive society indeed existed some species which belong to our genus Homo. All of them have disappeared and extinct for a long time, those are Hominins that we called. In 2015, Berger et al reported a discovery named the Homo naledi, they found at least 15 individuals and multiple examples to do their research (Berger et al, 2015;…

variance in the brightness between species, the authors of the study attempted to gain an insight into how their bioluminescence evolved. An experiment was set up to measure the brightness of each species. The experiments used a number of wild species of Motyxia and a control group of closely related millipedes which do not have bioluminescent properties, all from the genus Xystocheir (Figure 1). While observing the millipedes in the absence of light, one of the…

identified as non-hemolytic (gamma hemolysis). Growth best resembled the control Staphylococcus epidermidis which is non-hemolytic, indicating that Unknown 15 did not produce hemolysins to lyse RBCs into hemoglobin (1). Therefore, the alpha and beta hemolytic genus Streptococcus was eliminated (5). There was not an inconsistency in this result but, rather, a variability. The species that Unknown 15 was identified to be, by BLAST sequencing, can either demonstrate alpha or gamma hemolytic…

Coqui Frog? I believe they’re so fascinating! I have never learned about a frog more interesting than this. The Coqui is only able to live in Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The genus of the Coqui with over 700 species is one of the most species geneses of vertebrates! These frogs have quite a unique way of living. I can’t wait to teach you more! Coqui Frogs originated in the lands of Puerto Rico. They can be very sensitive frogs when having to do with humidity and temperature. Puerto Rico has the…