Omnivore

build up tissues all over, from the muscles all the way to the hair and nails. The protein in dog food can facilitate the process of human body building. Carbohydrates Dog foods are made up of between 30 to 70 percent carbohydrates. Them being omnivores, means that they can use carbohydrates as a source of energy. The ability to utilize both proteins and sugars as a source of energy allows dogs to function well. Common and readily available cereal grains such as corn, wheat, rice, oats, and…

Throughout history, humans have been clearing land and hunting animals heavily. This has pushed some animals passed their point of coming back, leading to extinction. Some have been pushed very close to the point of extinction, leaving it endangered. In today’s world, there are 16,306 living organisms who are endangered due to numerous reasons, examples being excessively hunted to because their habitat is being destroyed because humans need the lumbar or resources found there…

Whether it is psilocybin being nicknamed “magic mushroom” or LSD in its natural pure state, it is not the organism itself, but a component that is found inside it and constantly produced as a “weapon” to fend off any predators, mainly herbivores and omnivores (obviously), those that do try to eat it. For psilocybin, they can be found in the genus Agaricales which include numerous species, listed in following along with the number of organisms per species: genera Psilocybe (117 species),…

products of any sort. This year The Telegraph wrote an article titled, ‘Six reasons to go vegan, according to science’. The article promotes the current diet trend by not only stating it will make one lose weight, but more weight than any other omnivores diets, such as vegetarian, semi-vegetarian, etc. (Rahim, Telegraph, 2017). Whether or not this health claim is valid enough for one to change their…

Bird. Sulphur-crested cockatoo. A.) The sulphur-crested cockatoo is a herbivorous granivore. It is a ground feeder that eats berries, seeds, nuts and roots. As a result of the dangers of ground feeding cockatoos will generally travel in flocks which allows for some birds to keep watch from a nearby tree while the others feed. The cockatoos will feed in the morning while it is cool, as the day becomes warmer they will roost in trees where they will strip the leaves and bark from them, although…

Human Vitamin B-12 (HVB-12), is naturally found as a multifaceted chemical structure of all vitamins known as cobalamin because cobalt is a part of its chemical (Pawlak et al., 2013). Thus, cobalamin itself is a member of cobalt compounds known as corrinoids, it is referred to as cobalamin (Pawlak et al., 2013). This is an example of a water soluble vitamin, cannot been store by the human body. HVB-12, assists nervous system and functioning of brain boost (Criag, 2010). Commonly found in animal…

If vegans try so hard to emulate the tastes of meats and animal products, the healthy way is to just consume the real thing. The popularity of becoming a vegan has risen in the past decade because of organizations falsely “exposing” the meat and the meat-packing industries. Those industries and the government have heavily regulated systems and laws in favor of treating the animals justly, and many studies have been done by the companies to make sure that they are doing so. For example, many…

In “The American Paradox”, Michael Pollen believes that “ as omnivores […] in fact need to eat a wide variety of different things in order to be healthy” (268). Pollen has noticed that people have changed the food that they have eaten in order to be “healthy”. We have simply change our whole diet due to some scientist publishing some studies that a certain kind of food is bad for you health. Pollen argues our newly changed diet is not only unhealthy, it also imply stress to our everyday life by…

Systems, or networks of interdependent components, function in cycles, so each component or element of the cycle can influence another. Feedback loops are the increase (positive loops) or decrease (negative loops) in a process or component and the fluctuation of any element of the cycle with affect the whole. Different loops interact within ecosystems and create what is referred to as “dynamic equilibrium.” In an elk population, if there is an abundance of elk being born and continuing to…

Omer Alamin Env. Science Mrs. Mao Science Fair Report Scientifically, humans have been omnivores for several thousand years, with the earliest of humans were relying on hunting wildlife for their fix of protein and foraging to complete the diet. Meat was consumed infrequently in those days, but today it is consumed in alarming amounts by people around the world with its commercial availability that has proven to take a toll on human health and livelihood. This report aims to introduce Meatless…