Symbiosis

The Grizzly Bear Vincent Bauer Ecology March 3, 2017 Mr. Kopanke The Grizzly Bear, also known as the North American brown bear, or even more rarely as the Silvertip Bear is one of the largest land animals on the planet. It stands about 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall to the shoulder, and 1.8-2.4 meters (6-8 feet) long. When standing, it can stand up to 3.6 meters (12 feet) high. They weigh anywhere from 136 to 362 kilograms (300-800 pounds) , but the largest grizzly bear ever shot by a hunter…

Ningaloo Reef Marine Ecosystem 1. Identify ten organisms from your chosen ecosystem and draw a food web to show trophic interactions between them. Within this food web, you must include and label a decomposer. Ten organisms that live in the Ningaloo Reef include the bottlenose dolphin, loggerhead turtle, tiger shark, whale shark, Southern Calamari squid, jellyfish, zooplankton, dugong, phytoplankton and seagrass. The decomposer in this food web is bacteria, which works to further break down…

In James Serpell’s book, In the Company of Animals, chapter 2 “A cuckoo in the nest” argues that pets are not parasites, but rather live in a symbiotic relationship with their owners. Serpell starts his argument by talking about the parasitic relationship between the Atemeles beetles and ants. Through various bodily functions, the Atemeles beetles can find their way into the highly defensive ant colony. When they have successfully infiltrated the colony, they begin their attack without being…

I have always been fascinated about God’s creations and how each one has something to do with the life cycle of earth. Living in the city makes it harder to view the interworking of plants and animals, but my city has built an ecosystem within the city limits for all ages to explore. It has a science center in the middle that provides activities and also is a habitat for some animals. My family and I have attended many demonstrations and seminars at this location so I thought I would use it as…

By making use of the cliché vampire tales and transforming them into a unique fictional novel, Octavia Butler’s Fledgling takes the reader into a different world in which pleasure, hatred and persistence are combined to solve the mysterious life-threatening puzzle of a genetically modified vampire. Fledgling is a novel that exposes the ignorance hatred can create and the strength survival can generate. Nonetheless, Fledgling, like many other books, has its downfalls and confusions. Butler’s last…

Highmore, Ben. “Familiar things.” Ordinary Lives. London and New York: Routledge, 2010: 58-85. In Ben Highmore’s Ordinary Lives, his chapter “Familiar things” is an insight into the argument of the meaningfulness of objects in our everyday lives. Highmore’s claim begins by creating a relatable situation in saying that there are tons of things in our homes or daily lives that we interact with but pay no attention to. Highmore goes on to say “Things act on us and we act on things. There seems to…

1. My favorite parasitism example Ed Yong spoke about was the Ampulex compressa, or the emerald cockroach wasp. The wasp ability and understanding of how to blindly seek particular sections of the brain using only it’s stinger is simply fascinating. Not only does the wasp find the particular sections needed, it then implants venom into specific clusters of neurons. The ability to implant a particular part of the body into another organism and manipulate that organism, all without being able to…

Parasitism is the relationship between a parasite and it’s host, whether it is simply parasitic, or mutualistic. The podcasts main goal was to try and determine whether parasites are good or evil, presenting cases for both. First, the example of the wasps that are parasites to cockroaches was given. In this relationship, the wasp paralyzes the roach by stinging it. Then it stings the roach again in its head, turning into a puppet-like object. Following the two stings, the wasp guides the roach…

Environment In a world devoted to consumption, considering where the products come from is rare. In many cases, resources are found from the uncivilized areas of the world. The result of this production is global deforestation. Deforestation results negatively on the Earth’s health. Deforestation is the mass clearing of trees which results in “the reduction of CO2 emissions” (Laborczy, Winkler). Besides the negative impact found in the Earth’s atmosphere, deforestation has a harmful impact the…

Many animals share common relations such as the sea Anemone and the hermit crab. The two little animals help each other in order to survive. The crab bothers the Anemone and then the Anemone sticks onto the crab. The crab then gets protection from other critters in the ocean. The Anemone also benefits too, because it gets leftover food from the crab. This example of a relationship is one of the more common ones. This is an example of a mutual relationship. Many animals must have some sort of…