Tasmanian Devil

underside of the animal. The way the devil is shaped and sized depends on the habitat it is in and what food it consumes (Parks.tas.gov.au, 2018). Since 1990 the numbers of Tasmanian Devils have dropped dramatically with number of losses exceeding 100,000. One of the main causes of this is the rare cancer ‘Devil Facial Tumour Disease’ (DFTD) which is one of the two deadliest cancers in this species spreading like the flu from animal to animal. In order to protect the devils a number of…

Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger Part A The Tasmanian tiger or the Thylacine was a carnivorous marsupial that became extinct in 1933. According to the Australian Museum, the modern Thylacine made its appearance about 4 million years ago on the Australian mainland. However, it became extinct 2200 years ago on the mainland, possibly due to the competition with the dingo. (Evans.2015). The tiger’s main decline in Tasmania was largely due to the impact that humans had. The biggest cause of extinction…

Genome Evolution Did you know that the Tasmanian Devil’s genome is rapidly evolving to resist a deadly disease that has killed eighty percent of their population since 1996? To most people that means little to nothing, because most people don’t know what a genome is let alone the process in which it takes to evolve or for Scientists to discover the evolution. In the following paragraphs we will discuss what genome evolution is, how genomes are able to be compared and how the size can…

The thylacine is put into this particular family because of its stripes and pouch. It is though that the closest animals that it is related to is the numbat (figure 2) and the Tasmanian devil (figure 3) they all fall under the Order of Dasyuromorphia but then fall into different family’s but they seem to be the closest living thing to it that they have discovered so far. The Numbat looks very similar to the Thylacine but is much smaller…

the first stage of cloning. If the DNA was salvageable to clone the thylacine scientist would first have to extract the animals DNA from its cell 's nucleus, then reassemble its DNA using the genome from its closest relative(believed to be the Tasmanian devil), remove the ovarian eggs of the relative species and replace their nuclei with the restored DNA from the Thylacine, join the nuclei with the eggs then shock them with electricity causing cell division, when the embryos have grown to about…

Open all year round, except for national holidays. Tours run two times a day. Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens are located close to the city center and are the place to find historic plant collections along with a large number of significant trees, some dating back the nineteenth century. Open all year round except for Christmas day and Good Friday. Admission is free of charge! Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is a superb place to find out about Tasmania's history, including its Aboriginal…

Some laboratory experiments showed cancer cells being transferred by mosquitoes from one hamster to another. Wild dogs, Tasmanian devils, and soft shell clams also experienced contagious cancers. Majority of current experts would dismiss the idea of transmissible cancer and say the few examples are only aberrations. "They're flukes of nature," explained by Elizabeth Murchison…

It was the year of 2014 going into 2015 and I was an eighth grader. This was my second year attending Bennett Academy charter school. My English language arts teacher, Ms. Walton, had told to my classmates and me that in mid-November we will begin to start our huge assignment. That assignment was to be completed before the graduation date of May 21st, 2015. Ms. Walton told us that we need to have at least fifty pages and no less. I was nervous. Three months have passed and this is where I…

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emotionally and socially. Tom Sawyer changed throughout the book. At the beginning of the book tom lies a lot but later in the book he begins to feel bad when he lies so he lies less. Tom has also matured more. He used to be as mischievous as the Tasmanian devil. At the beginning of the book he would have never thought to bring a note home saying he was safe when he was playing pirates. I have changed academically. Last year I had a few missing assignments because I forgot to do them.…