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Natalie Buttaccio Biol 251 Oliphant January 20, 2017 1. According to Bonnie Bassler in the video TedTalk, the human body is considered 90% prokaryotic because there are ten times more bacterial cells than human cells on a human being. Humans have approximately 30,000 genes, but you actually have ten times more bacterial genes. Bassler considers humans about 90% bacterial. These bacterial cells literally almost do everything, from digesting our food, making our vitamins, keeping us healthy, etc.…

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classification information for Poriferans: Poriferans, better known as sponges, consist of 5000 known species, all located primarily in marine and fresh waters (Myers, 2001a). They are multicellular, heterotrophic, invertebrates with an irregular shape and no distinct pattern of symmetry (Myers, 2001a). Overall, they are the simplest of animals; thus, lacking any true tissue and/or germ layers (Myers, 2001a). Furthermore, they are known to be highly sessile,…

Deadly Unna?, written by Phillip Gwynne is a award winning children’s novel, with vivid characters that depict the racial discourse in a fictitious, coastal town of South Australia. The novel portrays a typical coastal town of the 1970’s, through the eyes of a fourteen years old Gary Black, known as Blacky. Deadly Unna? highlights the conservative attitudes of the white society and explores the institutionalised marginalisation and discrimination of the Nunga (the Indigenous population) who live…

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a neuroimaging instrument that analyses the magnetic fields that are generated by electrical activity in the brain (post-synaptic action potentials). Magnetic fields are recorded by sensitive magnetometers, whereby the pick-up coil stimulates a current that can detect very weak magnetic signals, ‘superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID’s) are usually used. Moreover, as SQUID’s can detect such subtle magnetic field changes this allows MEG to produce…

Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress, writer, and director. Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California on August 4th, 1983. She is daughter to Christine and Gordon Gerwig, her mother being a nurse and her father working for a credit union on small business loans. She has a close relationship with her parents, as well as with her older brother and sister. She has German, Irish, and English ancestry. She attended St. Francis High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento and showed…

His head is overly large like a squid but it could represent the anger built up as it is expressed with his frown and grinding of his teeth, he also looks like an old person that is sensible but easily annoyed by the sounds and actions of…

The ichthyosaurs, commonly known as the fish-lizards, were a very unique species that inhabited the oceans of our planet some 250 million years ago. Exactly what are the ichthyosaurs? These are creatures that evolved from a land species into dominate sea carnivores. Many have speculated on exactly what type of land creature the ichthyosaurs originally evolved from. Scientist believe that its origins are definitely reptile and belonged to a group called Diapsida, which includes lizards, dinosaurs…

To explain where whales fit into a trophic cascade first we have to look at what they eat. Because there are so many different species, what they consume varies from small krill to giant squid. But for most whales krill (a family of small, shrimplike crustaceans) is the main food source. All of the whale’s prey survive off of a single-celled organism called Plankton. Plankton is the base of the oceanic food chain. A whale’s diet depends…

I stopped fighting. The old man let go out of my arm and pulled several vials and test tubes out of the desk. He put the glass containers on the desk and grabbed three jars off the shelves. The first jar contained a liquid about the same color as squid ink, the second jar was filled to the top with chicken feet, and the third jar was loaded with the eyes of a lizard. “It would appear that you are bleeding do not worry a little cut like that shouldn't be that hard to get rid of.” The man told me…

Growing up we are susceptible to a multitude of inappropriate visual stimulates located on channels made specifically for our age group. I am now twenty years old, and can still sit in front of the television and feel entertained by these so-called “children” shows. There is crude humor plastered throughout each and every episode even though five year olds are capable of soaking in all of this negative culture, just like a sponge soaks up water. Ironically, the worst of them all has to be…