Seedling

Garlic mustard is not a positive thing for our environment. Garlic mustard is a plant, more easily classified as a weed, that has an extremely negative impact on our environment. The garlic mustard is an aggressive woodland invader in most of the eastern U.S. Actually, it is much worse than the zebra mussels. Zebra mussels are small freshwater mollusks. Garlic mustard has a negative impact on the environment because of many things. For starters, it is easily spread. Not only is it spread easily,…

As humans, we never want to stop advancing. We will always look for the next bigger, better, and more efficient way of doing something, which has allowed us to create things such as planes, automobiles, and factories. While these inventions seem to have improved our lives, we see that the creation of this technology has greatly hurt the Earth as well as ourselves when looking at the bigger picture. Albert Einstein himself said that, “all of our exalted technological progress, civilization for…

Karan Yegnala BIOL 141 11/8/2016 Plant Discussion Questions 1) What is plant neurobiology? According to the article, the definition of plant neurobiology is the study of how plants use “an intrinsic ability to process information from both abiotic and biotic stimuli that allow optimal decisions about future activities in a given environment” (Pollan 3). Unsurprisingly, the name of plant neurobiology wasn’t well-received due to “the absence of actual neurons.” (Pollan 3). Stefano Mancuso posed…

My fellow citizens: With every inauguration this country we corroborate the fortitude of the seedling of our country; the nearly two centuries old constitution. All standing before me, we are American not considering we were born upon American soil, but rather on the ground that we choose to hold faith in an archive written lifetimes ago by the brilliant men before us. Although; these words may be documented, they alone are worthless. Provided, It is our job in a government run by the people,…

After dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago, mammals began to evolve and diversify into new niches. In order to understand and disentangle this convoluted history of mammals, paleontologists narrowed the focus of their studies to horse because horse evolution occurred approximately at around 55 million years ago, and their fossil record is highly rich in details. In the next several paragraphs, we will discuss the morphological changes in horse from the Eocene epoch to the Holocene…

Greece. "People came from all over Greece and beyond to have their questions about the future answered by the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo. And her answers, usually cryptic, could determine the course of everything from when a farmer planted his seedlings, to when an empire declared war." (The Oracle at Delphi). The Oracle was an important figure throughout Greek History. "Where Apollo is the Sun, Artemis is the Moon. In this pantheon, the two are viewed as siblings."(Coolidge, Olivia E 24).…

Women have always struggled to make a change without experiencing sexism. That was the case for both Ida B. Wells and Wangari Maathai. In addition, they were women of color and during their time had experienced backlash from many across the nation. Although both women were from different eras, they experience similar challenges that they had to overcome. Despite the negativity, these women gained supporters and made a big impact on the world. Never losing sight of their goals, they defeated…

The Canadian Thistle is the perfect example of a species that affects my local environment here in Kentucky. The Canadian Thistle is a member of the Aster family which the Artichoke also belongs to. Like other plants that belong in the Aster family, the Canadian Thistle and Artichoke are composite flowers with many small flowers bunched together which is normally protected by overlapping layers of bracts. Even though the weed is called Canadian Thistle it is not native to Canada. Canadian…

The desire to learn is an innate trait in humans, knowledge and intellect emanate the power of the mind by which one holds collective erudition. Once the alpha in the hierarchy of education, The United States formed its niche on the highest tier in the rostrum. Such hubris induced adverse effects on education in the country, whose proceedings closely bordered to those of the power to transmute the palpable into gold. That was until America blew it. This askew academic transgression led to the…

seed-producing shrubs, which provide both food and shelter for wildlife. Clearcutting increases the biological diversity of the forest, which enhances habitat for a variety of wildlife. Some species of wildlife actually thrive better in brushy thickets of seedlings and small saplings.“ this piece of evidence supports the claim by stating that clear-cutting can be beneficial to the wildlife and the environment by creating openings for the bushes to gather sunlight, while making it so that some…