“The Biology of Facial Beauty”‚ an article from the International Journal of Cosmetic Science‚ states that it is common misconception that beauty is unsystematic. In fact‚ due to the contributions of biology‚ beauty is very predictable despite various factors‚ such as nationality‚ age‚ and race (317). This article is captivating and informative. Nevertheless‚ it could be improved by establishing a more clear-cut thesis and only selecting a few biological aspects of beauty to research and analyze
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the contributions of A. R. Wallace‚ who died 90 years ago‚ are more significant than usually acknowledged. I conclude that natural selection ’s lesser known co-discoverer should be regarded as one of the most important pioneers of evolutionary biology‚ whose original contributions are underestimated by most contemporary scientists. Introduction Ninety years ago the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823±1913) died at Old Orchard‚ Broadstone‚ United Kingdom. In spite of the fact that
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evolution‚ how natural selection results in biodiversity and why biodiversity is important to continued evolution. The sources of genetic variation such as mutations and sexual recombination will also be reviewed. Mechanisms of Evolution It is said that biology “came of age” when Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”. In this book Darwin expressed his concept on the mechanism of evolution: natural selection. He felt that a population could change over generations
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The Role of Epigenetics in Homosexuality The article I chose to review came from The Quarterly Review of Biology‚ Volume 87‚ No.4‚ pages 343-368‚ and is entitled‚ “Homosexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development”‚ by William R. Rice‚ Urban Friberg‚ and Sergey Gavrilets. The common occurrence of homosexuality is perplexing from an evolutionary perspective. From an evolutionary standpoint‚ homosexuality is a trait that would not be expected to develop and persist in
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Evolution in biology is a genetic change in a line of descent over time. The evolution of life on Earth has resulted in many hundreds of thousands of species. Genetic evidence reveals that humans share a common ancestor with life forms as different from us as bacteria and corn plants. In early 1800s‚ the source of Earth’s remarkable diversity of life forms was hotly disputed. Many people believed that all species had come into existence at the same time in the distant past. In 1831 Charles Darwin
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I’ve loved working with children for as long as I can remember‚ this experience made we want to combine my two favorite subjects and make a lasting career out of it. Also‚ during those years I took Biology CP‚ Economics AP‚ and English CP classes‚ but I found that I had the greatest interest in my biology course. I enjoyed the challenge of finding organism in a frog and telling how the blood circulates through its body. It was also very intriguing for me to learn about the cells‚ DNA structures‚ and
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division through out the process‚ as it remains a representation of modern psychology as the exact counterpart that is parallel to modern biology. Other determines factors that ware of importance were the scope and the divisions of psychological science in consistence with the nature and number of structural elements that consist in the mind. It was determined that Biology‚ which is the science of living things‚ is made up of three mutually interdependent sciences which are morphology‚ physiology and ontogeny
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Cited: Herrera C. S. (2013) Biology Honors Notebook Fairfield‚ California Schaffer and Associates Postlethwait J. H.‚ Hopson J. L. (2007) Modern Biology California United States of America Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston
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Plant tissue culture is a widely used procedure in plant biology in which organism is planted from the explants of the living plants in a nutrient medium under aseptic conditions. There are both advantages and disadvantages of plant tissue culture. Advantages: 1. To produce many copies of the same plants then which may be used to produce plants with better flowers‚ odors‚ fruits or any other properties of the plants that are beneficial to the human beings. 2. To produce plants anytime we want
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Discoveries in Biology- Your Inner Fish Your Inner Fish The book Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is an interesting novel that shows the evolution of some of our major structures through time. We all know about evolution and the monkeys but we never really looked in on evolution through “our inner fish”. The book was appealing because it helps to understand how we have come to be with some of the parts of our bodies we take for granted‚ like how we got our developed smell or our advanced color vision
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