Reactive oxygen species

Throughout the world, there are 230 accredited zoos and aquariums in nine different countries (Zoo and Aquarium Statistics, 2017). A safe assumption is that most people have been to a zoo at least once in their lifetime. With this being said, one of the trending topics in today’s world is if these zoos are helpful or harmful to animal’s well-being. One of the recent events that have occurred in sparking this debate happened in 2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo, where a three-year-old boy slipped…

jellyfish, I am looking into how different types of jellyfish feed. Jellyfish all around the world have mostly the same features but some have a venom that is powerful enough to kill a human in less than a minute. There are approximately thirty-seven species with this venom. However, there are many jellyfish that do not have this venom, these jellyfish have cells on their tentacles called nematocysts. They paralyze their prey by stinging them. Jellyfish usually feed on plankton and small fish,…

Diversity and Developments Madagascar has a unique blend of customs and faiths from Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and Africa. It is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries in the world. Approximately 250,000 species are found in Madagascar. Over 65 percent of the species found on the island of Madagascar are not found anywhere else on earth such as elephant birds. (Dewar & Wright, 1993). Madagascar is also home to the third largest coral reef system in the world. Madagascar has an…

organisms or species exposed to them may evolve. Convergent and parallel evolutions are to forms of evolutionary pattern that are often distinguished via the way phenotype evolve. When a certain phenotype evolves, the unexpressed genetic mechanisms that drive the expression are homologous in closely associated species which is a sign of parallel evolution and quite often differ in distant species which defines convergent evolution. Several studies have shown that with a population a species…

clothing, lumber, etc. Carbon dioxide and water are the chemical ingredients of photosynthesis, as such; oxygen gas is a by-product of it. Cellular respiration is a chemical process that gathers energy stored in sugars and other organic molecules. This process, although similar, does differ from cellular respiration through breathing. Breathing causes cells to exchange two gases such as taking in oxygen and eliminating it as carbon dioxide. A series of reactions take place in cellular…

same purpose as a swim bladder. It was recently discovered that, within this fatty organ, a vestigial lung can be found that is surrounded by small hard plates. It is believed that these plates were involved in lung volume regulation in an ancestral species, but have become rudimentary in extant coelacanths. Females are larger in size, and have higher thickness ratios and metabolic rates than males. Average mass of adult females is 82.1 kg, and average length…

Movies, news, books, stories and others have changed people’s views and have misguided them. Many people would not believe that plants would grow on desert because it is such a dry place, but people realized that lovely plants grow there. Likewise, numerous individuals believe that beetles are just other insects that get in everyone’s way, but in reality they are extremely helpful for society. Moreover, voluminous societies believe that bats are wicked and malicious animals that want to harm…

though extinction is the “end of the line” of all living species; it is the key to the survival of the future generation species. But with humans around premature extinction will be a problem due to our selfishness and loss of respect to our environment. With humans also known as “wise man”, they will develop a way to slow down the premature extinction to prolong their existence and the other species as well. More than 99% of all the species that have existed are now extinct, though extinction…

Family, a word that holds more than just one meaning in our society. While many people believe that family are the people that are biologically related to you such as your mother or father who share the same household, this is not necessarily true. For instance, in cases such as adoption, the people taking care of the individual might not necessarily be considered biological family, however they care for the individual as if they were his real family. Family is a word that should be more…

DNA in Forensic Science Every organism contains cells within which an organic polymer called Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is found. This particular polymer is composed of the phosphate backbone part, deoxyribose sugar part and also the nitrogenous base part. According to Butler, (2010), the phosphate backbone and deoxyribose sugar components are constant in all persons and, therefore, biologists today utilize the nitrogenous base component since it helps in distinguishing different individuals.…