Naked mole rat

the various rodents depicted in the video Chisellers have adapted to fit the many different environments they reside in. There are about 1,300 different species of rats and mice making them the largest that exists to this day. They are equipped with ever growing cheek teeth that replace what has been ground away. One in such mammal depicted within the video was the Kangaroo Rat. They have a quite interesting form of locomotion where they hop much like a kangaroo. Kangaroo Rats have extraordinary hearing, which is an important aspect of their survival in the wild. They as well have large cheek pouches on the outer surface of their cheeks that they use to carry seeds back to their burrows. This enables them to carry large loads of food back to their burrows at a given time, lessening their exposure in the open. When being as small as a Kangaroo Rat, adaptations are key component to their survival in the wild.…

The naked mole rat and the blind mole rat have developed unique anti-cancer mechanisms compared to other mammals. Mammals typically have several methods, such as inducing apoptosis, releasing cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (bound to CDK complexes) which signal cells to stop within a stage of the cell cycle, and contact inhibition in which cells stop growing once they make contact with each other. These mole rats’ distinct mechanisms modify contact inhibition and apoptosis to achieve the…

The naked mole rat is a very strange mammal for many many reasons. Mole rats run a monarchy in their colonies and the queen fights and claws her way up to the top, they are deemed completely immune to the cancer disease, and one of the strangest of all; naked mole rats don’t die of old age. That’s right naked mole rats are just as likely to die at age 1 as they are age 30. Rochelle Buffenstein has been studying naked mole rats for the past 30 years. She has recorded every birth date and every…

In his 1997 documentary film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Errol Morris directs the fascination of a man’s action that profoundly emanates his relationship with the world around him. The four men: Dave Hoover, a Wild Animal Tamer; Ray Mendez, the Hairless Mole-Rat Specialist; George Mendonca, a Topiary Gardener; and Rodney Brooks, a Robotic Scientist, each obsessed to create unconventional worlds of their aspirations. The film has a disrupted narrative format, interweaving interviews with…

semi-aquatic environment caused the apes to hunt deeper into the water for food ; thus becoming more comfortable in the water, causing the apes bodies to alter in ways most effective for water. For example the apes would have shed their fur so that they could swim faster.The theory states that a large population of the apes had been isolated on an island type of an environment when East-Africa flooded. Since the population was isolated, the apes would have to go to the sea for further survival.…

more unique when my brother and I stopped seeing my father on weekends, and my step-siblings lost their mother to a heart attack. At this point, we became the only family the others had. Our blended family became less blended and more solidified. I stopped referring to them as step-siblings, but rather just my siblings. As the youngest, I was the prime target for much mockery and ridicule. My sister developed a nickname for me when I was in middle school: Naked Mole Rat. Honestly, it’s a…

pressure, and volume are all accounted for. Dalton’s law of partial pressure is another theory that was explored in this lab. It states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. This law makes it possible for the partial pressure of the water vapor to be removed from the total pressure of the gases in the eudiometer tube to yield the partial pressure of hydrogen gas. Molar volume is the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, in this…

until a mustard color is obtained. Starch is then added to amplify the visual cue as explained before. The solution is then titrated to a milky pink and KSCN is added just before the endpoint. The addition of KSCN is necessary since iodine molecules have a tendency to occlude on the surface of CuI and thus, is not readily reduced by thiosulfate. SCN- can compete with this occlusion and free up the iodine so it can be reduced by thiosulfate. Finally, the solution is titrated until a sudden…

Introduction Section- The purpose of this experiment is to use reaction stoichiometry to determine the molar mass and the identity of an unknown, powdered metal, and to identify an unknown metal nitrate solution. To give a little background information on this experiment I will start by saying that a balanced chemical equation provides several important pieces of information about a chemical equation. Those important pieces include the substances consumed and formed, the physical states of the…

The calibration curve observed in this investigation was the relationship measured between the concentration of the cobalt solution, or CO(NO3)2, and the absorbance of the wavelength. As it was impossible to measure the true standard curve, the data points and subsequent graphs demonstrated the qualitative information collected and the trend of these values. The calibration curve closely resembled a straight line, with only minimal deviations in either direction. This indicated that the…