Species richness

What kind of Food they eat and what eats them. Also about their habitat and other animals around them. To start with , a Komodo Dragon is the strongest animal in its own ecosystem. They don't really interact with there own species. They don't interact with there own species unless they need to breed. Sometimes they will eat together but not often. Komodo Dragons are more of isolated animals they don't really care for their…

branch of science, because evolution itself is inevitable as organisms are constantly changing and adapting to their surroundings. Variation is a given variable, but the way these organisms change is determined on the amount of success a particular species has in reproducing and passing on their genes, over time the surviving genes become the dominant or favourable traits. There are two well-known theories in relation to…

Anne Fadiman’s “Odd Shelf” is filled with books about polar explorations, both successful and non-successful, whose “subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library.” To disperse the books throughout her larger collection, into the memoir section, or the science section, would be wrong. I have an “Odd Shelf” too. They are filled with books on topics that seem to have nothing to do with the rest of my collection. These books represent a lifelong interest of mine, and so they…

An article in the Smithsonian describes how scientists in a Chinese genomics institute used a common gene editing enzyme called TALENs to create micropigs, which weigh about 33 pounds at maturity. These micropigs were first created to study the human stomach bacteria and new medications, which can help answer questions about the human body itself. By using an enzyme to stop the pigs from growing, the researchers altered their DNA, which would then be passed down to their offspring. This is…

Pycnopodia Helianthoides, which is known as the sunflower seastar, is an extraordinary star fish found in the northeast Pacific. It is one of the largest sea stars in the world, and has a maximum arm-span of 1m (Lambert, 2001). This intertidal organism has many amazing traits that most other sea stars do not possess. I will discuss these unique characteristics throughout my essay. Sunflower seastars have 16 to 24 limbs and are radially symmetrical. It is also the heaviest known sea star on the…

Humans have naturally formed settlements to survive since they have been on the earth. As humankind has progressed society have become more advanced and organized. Within advanced society there has to be leadership, government laws and law enforcers. Family is the structure and core of all societies. In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver normal human life is transformed to fit into the new society where everybody is the same. Lois Lowry’s experience with her father's old age and dementia helps to…

For many years scientists have been trying to discover new evidence that we humans are the common ancestors of homosapians from the past. Scientists went from researching and studying artifacts to examining ancient fossils. So far the evidence that has been uncovered highly support the fact that we are related to the “humans” of the past. Homosapians have evolved rapidly over the past three million years to what we are now, modern humans. It can be proven from primary sources that have been…

Introduction: Thrips (order Thysanoptera) have become one of the hardest pests to control in a greenhouse setting. Thrips are small, winged insects that reproduce very quickly, and can be in small places making it difficult to apply a pesticide treatment. They use their sucking-piercing mouthparts to defoliate the leaves and flowers of greenhouse plants. This defoliation has caused the lost of many plants and dollars for greenhouse growers and because of this thrips must be controlled.…

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin Chapter Questions Chapter 1 – Finding Your Inner Fish 1. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils. Be sure to include the types of rocks and their location during their paleontology work in 2004. The author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 Million Years as it was a period when the transformation took place from fish to fish with limb. The fish without characteristics of…

family, is a keystone species living in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan, Russia, America, Canada and Mexico. It’s current population, is estimated to be just over 106,000 worldwide, with just over 3,000 in California. These aquatic mammals are currently under threat of extinction. Through scientific knowledge and understanding of the sea otter, protection laws have been put into place to create for design and action of sustainability of the environment of the keystone species, the…