Aceraceae family and is commonly known as the sugar maple. The sugar maple leaf is the main symbol depicted on the Canadian flag which further emphasizes its importance to Canadian culture and history. Along with it’s cultural significance, it is also extremely important economically in Canada due to the various products that are produced from it’s sap and wood. Due to it’s widespread canopy capable of blocking large amount of sunlight and its gorgeous leaf structure and colourations in the…
Two Leaves, One Gone You know, I tried. I really did. As I sit here, a hole in my heart, (literally and figuratively) I wonder what I did any of this for, why this came to be. Sorry, my name’s King. I get distracted easily. I am your average but not average high schooler. Not to brag, but I’m kind of a genius. I’m a senior at 16, and had a fairly nice life. I had my loving mother, but my father had died two months ago to cancer, and it was hard carrying on. My little sister in particular, had…
How to Choose a Bed Rail For Your Needs There are a variety of bed rails available, from the ones that you can hold on to push yourself out of bed to the ones that prevent you from falling out of bed. Do you need a full or half rail? One that goes under the bed or one that fits between the box spring and the mattress? The various rails provide varying degrees of support. A rail for a 78-year-old might not work for an 8-year-old. The first question you need to ask when looking for a bed rail…
Experience 3: Leaf science: how to find the hidden colours Rationale: To understand how leaves change colour and why they are green. This is aimed at moving Billy from pre-theoretical knowledge to sound scientific understanding of chlorophyll while understanding the world around him, in a visual way. Materials: Clear jars Coffee filter paper Pencils Rubbing alcohol A range of leaves, including autumn colours 10 sandwich bags Labels Gardening gloves Rolling pin Curriculum Link: NSW Science…
P. putida and P. fluorescens isolates were cultured in 250 ml Laurea Broth (LB) medium at 30±1 ºC for 36 h in an incubator shaker at 150 rpm. The culture was then poured into 50 ml falcon tubes and centrifuged for 10 min. at 6000 ×g at 4 ºC. The pellet was washed thrice in 15 ml distilled water and centrifuged. Then it was dissolved in distilled water and the optical density (O.D) of the culture was set at position-1 at 600 nm=107–108 colony forming units (CFU) ml-1 for inoculation (Bhuvaneswari…
significant difference in stomatal densities between young and old leaves or no. The stomatal density of young and old leaves has not significantly different densities. The age of the leaf does not аffect and do not correlate with stomatal density. Because, when the leaf is a baby leaf it makes all the stomata and as leaf growth it just pulls apart from each other. Stomata has an essential rоle in all plаnts. Stomata helps to maintain balance between water and gas exchanges. The word stomatа…
early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.’’” Some readers may brush it off thinking that it was an unimportant and random piece of the novel, but this is not true. The Outsiders and the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost are alike in many ways. One way that the book relates to the poem like this is with the line “Then leaf subsides to leaf.” This line means that leaves give way to…
The Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a very abundant tree in the mountainous regions here in Utah. Moreover, this particular species of tree is very popular because it grows most commonly around burn sites. After a natural disaster the Quaking aspen is usually one of the first trees to take root. The Quaking aspen is well known here because of this, however the common person may find it hard to identify when an aspen tree is not healthy. Sooty bark canker (encoelia pruinosa) is a canker is…
The Allegory of the Maple Syrup April 12, 2010 at 6:53am Throughout His ministry, Christ used stories and metaphor to teach the people the gospel. On the surface, the stories are just that-- stories. Some were allegories. An allegory is a Greek word. It means a figurative story full of meaning and metaphor, where each thing in the story represents something else. If you look deeper into the meanings and symbols, bright truths can be learned. No matter what level a person is on, we can all gain…
Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…