Species

Throughout millions of years species have learned to adapt to the ever-changing planet they call home. Some species have survived the change and others have not and went extinct. The National Geographic documentary on the Wild Amazon Rainforest offers some insight on how the creatures of the forest and the river have adapted throughout time. Every year new species is being discovered, whether it be plants or animals. If the environment is changing slowly the animals and plants that live in the…

The overwhelming majority of nature on the planet earth will be forever trapped in the confinement of a less cognitive ability, shackled to the walls of what they can and cannot do. All except for one, awe-inspiring species. The homo sapien, better known as a human, is the most evolved living organism in nature. In order to be classified as a human, one will have to possess many specific qualities. The anatomical body of a homosapien being cannot be viable without the possession of moral…

Temperature plays a crucial role in the survival of the fungus as well as in the spread of the disease. Poole et al., 2013 recently reported that there was a significant effect of the temperature on the distribution and the prevalence of the Fusarium species. From the survey conducted in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, F.pseudograminearum was more prevalent in the regions of lower elevations with lower moisture and higher temperature while F. culmorum was more prominent in the higher…

occurrence among species and is a way in which specific individuals' genetics will carry over into the next generation gene pool. This process happens when a species' alleles randomly change frequencies. This happens to the point where a gene is either no longer represented in the gene pool or is the entire representation of the gene pool (more likely with a smaller population). The second of the four forces of evolution is natural selection. Natural selection is a term that refers to a species'…

the place an organism lives, the organism's "job" in that environment, what an organism eats, and how it interacts with other biological and non-living species. There must be a symbiotic relationship between all species. The three main niches an organism might contend with are commensalism, predation and mutualism. Ecology is about how the species of an ecosystem interact together, their interaction with their environment, and with each other. Plants and animals interactions one must…

What makes a human human? Humanity as a whole is very unique when compared with the species of the rest of the world. We have greatly advanced languages and communication techniques and advanced social structures. We have created money and used it as a means to trade with others across the globe. We have built massive structures that seem to graze the sky. We have created gods and weaponry to destroy each other in the blink of an eye. With the massive impact humanity has made on the world…

With natural selection its major driving mechanism, evolution is the change over time in the makeup of genetics of a population. Supported by evidence from many scientific methods, Charles Darwin, in On the Origin of Species, asserts that inheritable variations occur in individuals in a population. In the process known as natural selection, due to competition for limited resources, individuals with more favorable characteristics or phenotypes are more likely to survive and better reproduce,…

the wild develop unique behaviours that help them survive or optimize their responses to get the maximum amount of reward. By discovering these mechanisms, it is possible to create programs that may help repopulate species that are diminishing or having trouble foraging, or relocate species that may have had their habitats affected by…

to decrease at the same rate they have been. C. Elephant poaching has to end completely before the entire species becomes extinct. D. Today I will show you the decrease in elephant population due to the poaching of elephants for their tusks and limbs, while ending with the ways you can make a difference in their lives. I. BODY A. Many types of elephants fall under the endangered species category due…

maximize their fitness (Axelrod and Hamilton, 1981). Sea creatures use a variety of techniques to deceive both prey and predators, such as changing shape and color, (((and this animal)) can even add appendages to look like one of a variety of different species (Axelrod and Hamilton, 1981; Smith, 2004). Viruses deceive their host’s immune system in order to multiply (Smith, 2004). Humans use some of these same strategies to deceive, although we are often more advanced in our techniques. In this…