Carnivorous Plants In a world where plants are at the bottom of the food-chain‚ some individual plant species have evolved ways to reverse the order we expect to find in nature. These insectivorous plants‚ as they are sometimes called‚ are the predators ‚ rather than the passive prey. Adaptations such as odiferous lures and trapping mechanisms have made it possible for these photosynthesizers to capture‚ chemically break-down and digest insect prey (and in some cases even small animals.) There
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Last week of Spring Break! It’s Time to make this three days one of the best days of my life. As I bought my tickets on United Airlines all I could think of was “Wow I’m actually going to leave the country and explore marvelous wonders on my own”. One of the best countries of the world would be Italy; I always wanted to travel to Rome‚ where all I could smell is pasta and wine. All night all I could think of was the next day I would be in an airplane on my way to Italy eating pizza. My summer clothes
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Enzymes are important components of life‚ facilitating reactions that are necessary for an organism to live. Enzymes can be very specific to what environment they function best in1. Numerous environmental impacts were tested for the enzyme peroxidase which catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. The basic decomposition reaction was carried out first without any environmental alterations. The hypothesis for this reaction was supported. The enzyme caused the amount of absorbance increase
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Enzymes are biologic polymers that catalyze the chemical reactions that make life as we know it possible. The presence and maintenance of a complete and balanced set of enzymes is essential for the breakdown of nutrients to supply energy and chemical building blocks; the assembly of those building blocks into proteins‚ DNA‚ membranes‚ cells‚ and tissues; and the harnessing of energy to power cell motility‚ neural function‚ and muscle contraction. With the exception of catalytic RNA molecules‚ or
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produced from the cassava plant‚ which on account of its low content of noncarbohydrate constituents might well be called a starch‚ is known in world trade as tapioca flour. It is used directly‚ made into a group of baked or gelatinized products or manufactured into glucose‚ dextrins and other products. Starchy foods have always been one of the staples of the human diet. They are mostly consumed in starch-bearing plants or in foods to which commercial starch or its derivatives have been added. The first
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pH & Enzyme Action Aim: To inspect the effects of the pH on enzymes. Apparatus: 100 cm³ Beaker 3 – 5cm³ Syringes 2 Test Tube Racks with 8 Test Tubes Stop-watch Ruler Dropping bottle of detergent Marker Pen Masking Tape 400cm³ Hydrogen Peroxide 200cm³ Liver Catalase Solution 100cm³ of following Buffer Solution – pH5 pH7 pH9 pH11 Method: The materials were collected. The test tube rack one with 4 test tubes had been labelled A to D. The 2cm³ of each buffer solution
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| Peroxisome in animal cell | Life sciences‚ HAN university of applied science‚ Nijmegen‚ Netherlands | | Mohsen Ghanbari | 30-12-2012 | Peroxisome in animal cell Author: Mohsen Ghanbari Abstract Peroxisomes have an essential function in cell metabolism. [1] They are small‚ membrane bounded organelles that have at least fifty different enzymes for several metabolic reactions. [2] Their appearance is like lysosomes; however‚ their main function is oxidation reactions especially oxidation
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Pine Cones : What adaptations do the pine trees have? Pines trees live in very windy and cold places where insects not well adjusted to the extreme weather. Pine leaves are needled like‚ very long‚ thin‚ and not good to consume. They have the ability to shed snow during winter season. How do these adaptations assist their growth and reproduction? These adaptations help them grow and reproduce. The female cone which is larger in size than the male cones has hard protective bracts that cover the
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Why did the Alliance break down in 1944 - 45? There were many aspects to the Alliance breaking down between 1944 and 1945 these are the long term hostility between the USA and the USSR‚ the arguments at the Yalta and Potsdam conference and the different personalities in the big and the change of leadership within USA and Britain. In 1917 civil war broke out in the USSR. The USA‚ Britain‚ France and the other countries decided to try and wipe out communism by force. They invaded the USSR in support
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acid rain Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants‚ aquatic animals‚ and infrastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. In recent years‚ many governments have introduced laws to reduce these emissions. Emissions from volcanoes and those from biological processes that occur on the land‚ in wetlands‚ and in the oceans account for the
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