Species richness

In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, goes through a change that gives him a new perspective. His metamorphosis causes not only a physical but a psychological transformation within Gregor. This transformation is not exclusive to Gregor, but is also prevalent within the entire Samsa family. Gregor’s metamorphosis was sudden and unexpected. “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin” (4).…

The lesson called Home Grown Caterpillars is a lesson about the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly (life cycle process) while creating a three dimensional piece of art to express idea, experience, or story. The story associated with this lesson is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The art piece is a replica of the caterpillar during a butterfly’s life cycle made out of grass seed, soil, stockings, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. This lesson would be considered an art enhanced lesson…

populations of plants and animals. It requires the protection of ecosystems and the biodiversity in these ecosystems. 'Biological diversity – or biodiversity – is the term given to the variety of life on Earth. It is the variety within and between all species of plants, animals and micro-organisms and the ecosystems within which they live and interact.'(Wwf.org.au, n.d.) Every organism plays an important role in their ecosystem and they are all connected in some way which means if the population…

Life. Webster Online Dictionary states the simple definition as life to be, “the ability to grow, change, etc., that separates plants and animals from things like water or rocks, the period of time when a person is alive and the experience of being alive”. Purpose. Cambridge online dictionary states that the definition of purpose is, “why you do something or why something exists”. Why is it that you have a life? Does your life have a purpose? Does a purpose for life truly exist? Have you found…

Human life is the best creation of evolution and it has two aspects: the biological and the socio-cultural. Biological aspect is found in plant and animal life. But the socio-cultural aspect is the rare division of human life alone. Our life in the complex world is governed not only by the biological process, but also by a social process. Though the performance of the organism is the biological heredity, education is our social heredity. With biological heredity alone, we would be nothing better…

The genetic differences or the changes on genes are modified through mechanisms such as mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection. How variation or heredity effects in evolution by the process of natural selection or how different species can affect each other's evolution through coevolution can…

Zaglossus bruijni is the Latin name for the Western Long-beaked Echidna (IUCN, 2016). In 1982 the species became Vulnerable up until 1994 where it then increased to endangered, the most up to date assessment on the Western Long- Beaked Echidna in 2008 and classes it as Critically Endangered (IUCN,2016). This species is found in the Vogelkop Peninsula of Papua Province, Indonesia. It had been thought to have been Australia at one point due to the aboriginal artwork located on Arnhem Land as well…

microbe symbiosis and the environment can affect each other. Very few studies have targeted this factor in the past, and I believe it is important to identify with this factor of symbiosis in order to fully understand how the environment and the species within that habitat directly and indirectly affect one…

Over the past decade the accounts of various coral diseases have been on the rise which had lead to the decimation of keystone species of corals throughout mainly the world’s tropical oceans. Since the mid-1990s, 18 coral diseases affecting at least 150 scleractinian, gorgonian, and hydrozoan zooxanthellate species have been described in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific (Sutherland et al. 2004). Most of these diseases have been caused by bacterial, fungal, and protist type pathogens as well the…

hundreds of species. Sample and Cheng, authors of Forest Conservation Policy: A Reference Handbook, emphasize that, “Plant and animal species, many of them dependent on forest ecosystems, are quietly going extinct—at a rate faster than at any time since a comet smashed into Earth 60 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs” (1). Deforestation is eliminating shelters, destroying hunting grounds for carnivores, taking away food sources of herbivores, and, essentially, killing off every…