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    are commonly referred to as "bean beetles." Adult Callosobruchus maculatus have a very short lifespan of 6 to 14 days (Fox et al. 2006). During this short lifespan, adults do not eat or drink; instead, they spend all their time mating and laying eggs. Following mating, adult female Callosobruchus maculatus oviposit individual fertilized oval-shaped eggs on legumes, such as mung beans (Vigna radiata) (Torres et al. 2016). The females use glue produced inside their abdomen to attach their…

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    as “The Golden One” and after that he could not stop thinking about her. The council has these rules in place so that there is no feelings of love or affection for another person and the only children being made are at the City Palace of Mating at the Time of Mating. Equality did not like this rule and he had a nagging feeling that it was…

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    organisms of the same species occupying a particular area that live together. The ultimate constituents of population are individual organisms that can potentially interbreed. 3. Genetic variation is very important in evolution process. Mutation, random mating, and recombination cause it. Variation allows changing in genetic pool in a population. Genetic variation enables an organism to better adapt to their climate or environment and so increase the chance to survive in new environment. 4.…

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    Anhinga Research Paper

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    are grey with white plumes. The female is two toned brown and is slightly smaller than the male. During mating season the color around their beak and eyes change and they become orange/red around the beak and aqua blue around the eyes. There are no known dangers to the species at this time. Anhinga are usually found in solitude, sunbathing in the heat of the day by a lake, however, during mating, they generally will nest in pairs to ensure safety of the nest. Male Anhinga help build the heavy…

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    can be a caterpillar or beetle that has been paralysed by the wasp’s sting and used for food. She lays her larvae on the paralysed insect for them to have a supply of fresh food as they grow. It sounds disgusting but often nature is brutal. The Mating Habits of The Social Wasp As for the social wasp, they live in colonies. Each colony will only survive for one season. The queen hibernates in the winter and lays her eggs to start the new colony for the spring. She builds her nest with paper…

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    Vipers Research Paper

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    Out of the 725 venomous snakes discovered, a whopping 280 can kill you in only one bite! When it comes to snakes they differ greatly, and one of the greatest kinds of snakes are viperidae or viper. We will be talking about vipers different type of behavior, how to tell them apart from other snakes, and most what their diet is. The behavior or snakes differs from species to species, but viper snakes tend to act the same. If threatened at times they might coil up into a flat spiral or might hiss…

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    Anthem by Ayn Rand tells the tale of a dystopian society in which people are to think only of others, and taught that people shouldn’t think of themselves, eliminating all personal pronouns. In this society people are not able to pick their own careers, and instead a group known as the Council of Vocations decides what a person’s career is going to be. In the novel Equality, the main protagonist is a fantastic student, who aims to learn as much as possible and wants to use his knowledge to…

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    fall in love or have feelings for someone like Equality did “Men are forbidden to take notice to women, and women are forbidden to take notice of man” (38). And to keep up the population there is the time of mating where all men over twenty and all women over eighteen go to the palace of mating and are matched with someone. Than there's all sort of laws like the one that international spoke of “Since the council doesn’t know of the hole, there is no law permitting to enter” (31). Why have…

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    The voice pitch is a trait that has evolved through sexual selection of humans and has become sexually dimorphic. This trait is sexually dimorphic because for males the voice pitch has the tendency to be lower and this because the ‘adam’s apple’ is a thicker layer of cartilage that influence the vocal cords in males along with higher testosterone levels predict low voice men.. For females, the voice pitch tends to be lower because without this extra layers of cartilage makes the vocal cords have…

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    Salinity In Earth Harbor

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    categories (1-3). A horseshoe crab was marked as (1) if its eyes were still very clear, and if its prosoma showed no signs of epibionts, had a lustrous sheen to it and a mottled pattern of black colored lines. A horseshoe crab marked as (2) had obvious mating scars if female, had some epibionts, and while it still showed a lustrous carapace, it was starting to show wear and tear, the mottling was not as apparent and the eyes were also not quite as clear as a one. In order to be marked as (3),…

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