Pollen

staple crops has been affected by the reduction of the bee population. The wild bees are the main pollinator that accomplishes syngamy or fertilization. The Chinese farmers are now using fertilization technique by hand-pollination. They carry pots of pollen grains and individually pollinate each flower. Though they are partially successful in preserving staple crops and wind-pollinated crops, but it is compulsory to mitigate this challenge immediately. It is due to the fact that it is impossible…

Although Leslie Marmon Silko's great novel Ceremony is a work of fiction, there are details and phenomenon that occur within the story that are not only present in real world events but in numerous forms of popular culture entertainment. Even Silko's own personal experiences can be compared to themes and phenomenon in her novel. In fact, Silko makes this observation herself during one of her many interviews "and so when I started Ceremony, I was as sick as Tayo was. I was having nausea and all…

Occasionally, a professor will assign a book in their lecture whose origins can be traced to a seminar paper. Undergraduates typically respond to this piece of trivia with emotions ranging from indifference to mild admiration. Graduate students however, tend to display more of an annoyed reverence which conveys the understood difficulties involved in forming an original and unique argument designed to contribute to the existing historical scholarship. In this regard, I am quite annoyed with…

benefit. Nectar (a mix of water, sucrose, glucose, and fructose; Chalcoff et al., 2006) produced by flowers plays a key role in ecological communities. Pollinators use the nectar as a nutrient, and in the process of obtaining nectar they also gather pollen to assist in fertilizing seeds of the plant. Nectar secretion of a flower seems to be the most important reward for pollinators, so flowers put a significant amount of energy into…

The Iceman, also called Ötzi, is a mummy from the Stone Ages who was discovered by hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon in the Alps in the late 1900s. The Iceman when he was found was stuck in a glacier called the Niederjoch Glacier. This glacier is part of what kept the Iceman preserved for so long. He is one of the oldest mummies in the world, at about 5,300 years old and he lived around 3300 BCE. When the Iceman was first discovered, he was thought to have died of natural causes. This was thought…

environment. Even further, GM crops have been shown to disrupt the natural life cycle of our environment as in cases such as with the monarch butterfly. Even the loss of milkweed that Monarch butterflies depend on, (and other sources of nectar and pollen that wild pollinators require to survive) is an environmental side effect of intensive herbicide use associated with GE crops. (Pleasants & Oberhauser, 2013) Butterflies are in indictor of a healthy, flourishing environment. They are natural…

The applications of Bt corn are to produce a better quality corn that resists pests and parasites and will yield larger crops even in poor environmental conditions. The Cry1AB protein or Bt delta endotoxin located inside the Bt corn, is what is used to kill off Lepidoptera larvae, specifically the European corn borer, as they hatch and begin to feed on the plant as the protein is made by the plant in the tissue where these feed at. The Cry protein acts as a synthetic insecticide and is not…

increased invasiveness, which causes the strain or kill native plants and crops. Along with possible invasion of natural species outside cultivation there runs a risk of affecting non-target organisms (Isaaa.org). Relating to this, a lab study report says pollen from Bt corn adversely effects the larvae of monarch butterflies…

non-specific stimuli and can vary on a case-to-case basis. It is very important to identify what triggers each patient’s asthma as that can go a long way in helping prevent asthma attacks. Some common triggers that effect patients include different types of pollens, molds, dust mites and animal dander. Exercise induced asthma is another very common diagnosis among patients with asthma. Exercise induced asthma is often referred to as exercise induced bronchoconstriction, and is when the airways…

I have always been attracted to scary movies, like the bees are attracted to pollen and nectar in flowers. I do not know where this attraction for these indescribable and sometimes unbelievable movies come from, but I am sure that I like them. I have been watching scary movies since I was a child, not as often as now when a new scary movie comes out and everybody wants to watch it but somehow like that, I know you might wonder why every time a new scary movie comes out in theater almost…