Genus

Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that makes up the family Pelecanidae. With 8 different species of pelicans, they can be found on all continents except for Antarctica. Pelicans live throughout the world in tropic and temperate zones, and always near bodies of water. Average life span in the wild is 10 to 25 years or more and up to 54 in in captivity. It is easy to identify pelicans, because they are one of the only birds with a pouch under their bill. Along with the giant pouch,…

The Georgics appears as a simple didactic poem where readers go to find information and knowledge on agricultural manners. However, Virgil’s craftiness and use of language reveal a more insightful and polemic content. Thus, I will discuss Virgil’s use of anthropomorphism to portray a response to the Roman civil wars. The way anthropomorphism appears to work in Georgics seems to consist on evoking pathos and in the reappearance of the similar anthropomorphized animals. Virgil appears to…

plate methods and under a microscope. The streak plate method helps isolate wanted pure colonies of bacteria to observe their characteristics under the microscope. But how does one tell the difference between different strains of bacteria of the same genus and species? One method that is used in the realm of foodborne pathogens is through polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR works by heating the DNA strand to separate the DNA, selecting a specific DNA fragment from a unique pathogenic…

There are about 100 million unique species on Earth. Living organisms exhibit unity because they use the same processes for seizing and storing energy, producing proteins, and passing on the information through genes from generation to generation. At the same time living organisms exhibit diversity because there are so many different species. All life on Earth is related because everything came to be from common origin yet beginning 4 billion years ago. Throughout the time living things have…

Human evolution is the long process of change in which humankind originated from apes. Before Charles Darwin, Carolus Linnaeus, chose the word,”homo,” which is Latin for human, in his classification system. During this time, along with Linnaeus, other scientists considered apes to be close relatives to humans due to their anatomical similarities. In the 1960s and 70s, African researchers found fossils of australopithecines, an extinct creature related to humankind in Africa. Later more fossils…

Comparison and Distinction of the U.S and Nevada Constitutions Xitlali Salas 1 A Comparison and Distinction of the United States and Nevada Constitutions As the foundations and frameworks for a government, constitutions play crucial roles in shaping the way a state and nation are run. While the Constitution of the United States outlines the way the federal government is run and act as the supreme law, each state has its own constitution to lay out the way its own government will run. It is…

There is only four species identified within the genus. The Anhinga is related to the darter family. The Anhinga falls under the kingdom Animalia, (del Hoyo, et al., 1992; Hennemann, 1985; Isenring, 1997). The Anhinga has been seen in a variety of climates from tropical to subtropical, which areas are…

what they call the grand slam, which is killing all four birds in the United States. The full classification of the Wild Turkey is, Kingdom: Animalia- Phylum: Chordata- Class: Aves- Order: Galliformes- Family: Phasianidae- Subfamily: Meleagridinae- Genus: Meleagris…

the SWD has made a rather unattractive name for itself. The Spotted Wing Drosophila’s Taxonomic Tree is as follows: Domain: Eukaryota, Kingdom: Metazoa, Phylum: Arthropoda, Subphylum: Uniramia, Class: Insect, Order: Diptera, Family: Drosophilidae, Genus: Drosophila, and Specieis: Drosophila suzukii. Lifecycle of the SWD is highly affected by the climate and weather. D. suzukii develops through three larval instars, and development from egg to adult has taken from 8 days 2 h to 10 days 3 h at…

Immunodeficiency Virus, is also known as HIV. HIV is the sixth most deadliest virus in the world. IN 2013, about 1.5 million people in the world died because of this disease. HIV is the family of Group 6 retroviridae (RNA reverse transcribing), the genus is lentivirus, and there are two specific species HIV-1, and HIV-2. HIV is a disease that slowly starts to weaken one’s immune system. After decades of contracting the disease one’s body will be too weak to even defend itself from a light cold.…