Confucius said “Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it” Animals that are hideously ugly‚ Blobfish‚ Aye-Aye‚ Naked Mole Rat‚ Horseshoe Bat‚ Spiders‚ Snakes‚ Vultures‚ Hyenas and many‚ many more are all there for a purpose. Spiders and Bats eat insects and that keeps their population under control. Snakes eat rodents. People think of Vultures and Hyenas as mangy‚ diseased and disgusting because they eat carrion. Yet that is what keeps the fields clean of diseases that would kill off the other animals
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Prac 4 | Vertebrate Forelimbs‚ Shake a Leg! Ch. 6.4 H.Bio T.Book Aim: To gather information from secondary sources to observe‚ analyze and compare the structure of a range of vertebrate forelimbs. Materials: Pearson Biology Textbook coloured pencils Skeletons‚ photographs of a number of vertebrates copy of student worksheet Method: 1 Examine each of the vertebrate specimens in turn. Using Figure 1 as a guide‚ locate and identify the bones making up the pentadactyl limb structure
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Temporal Isolation Temporal isolation is when species that could interbreed do not because the different species breed at different times. This temporal difference can be the difference between breeding during the night or during the day as some insect species. More common is breeding at different times of the year. An example of temporal isolation would be one species of bird that feeds at dawn and another species that feeds at dusk. They are less likely to interact due to their schedules. (Night
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fish‚ amphibians and reptiles. Melanin-Concentrating Hormone – a hormone which controls skin pigmentation in teleost fish. Flatfish – a fish which is flat and in many species has both of its eyes on one side of its head. Metamorphosis – when an insect or amphibian changes from an immature state to a mature state in two or more stages. Verasper moseri – more commonly known as the barfin flounder‚ it is a flat fish Why is it important to learn about this topic? Are there potential medical
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Through research I discovered that there are animals that have senses that by far exceed our five human senses. One of the animals would be the bat that we spoke about in class. Bats avoid obstacles and nab insects on the wing by emitting ultrasonic squeaks and interpreting the echo the sound waves make after bouncing off objects in the environment. This is called "echolocation‚" but bats aren’t the only animals that use echolocation. Dolphins also use echolocation to navigate themselves in murky
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It is my opinion that spiders should be banished to Room 101 - the world would most likely be a better place without them. I am not arachnophobic‚ as I am not afraid of scorpions or other arachnids‚ but I am absolutely terrified of spiders. Merely the thought of them fills me with dread and causes me to shudder. Many people consider this fear to be irrational but in my opinion‚ these people are ignorant of the true nature of spiders; it is my belief that spiders are pure evil and quite possibly the
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BEES DISAPERANCE Nathan Thiry South College Many people are unaware of the importance of the honey bee. When most people think of a bee‚ we think of a bee sting or flowers. This is not all the honey bee is about. They play a major roll in our environment. In New England‚ farmers of cranberries and blueberries are extremely concerned because the bees are disappearing and no one seems to have an explanation. They make over 100 million dollars a year with the help of the honey bee. They
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Hummingbirds Reproduction: Hummingbirds usually lay 2 eggs‚ and those eggs have a 14-23 day incubation period. The mother is on the nest 50-55 minutes out of every hour. After the eggs hatch‚ the chicks stay in the nest for three weeks‚ which makes the total time from egg laying to mature 5-6 weeks. In warmer environments like the southern states and Mexico‚ hummingbirds can double‚ and sometimes even triple brood. Lifespan: Hummingbirds live about 3-5 years‚ but most don’t make it past the first
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* Are made of animal cells * No cell walls * Eukaryotic. Lysosomes‚ centrioles. Flagella‚ cilia * Multicellular * Heterotrophic * Chemotrophic * They are either: 1. Invertebrates * Have no back bone 2. Vertebrates Things to classify Animals: 1. Feeding 2. Respiration 3. Internal Transport 4. Excretion 5. Response 6. Movement 7. Reproduction Phylum Porifera * The flagella move water into the sponge * Cells collect
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Honey bees are one of the matriarchies in the insect kingdom. Colonies consist of one queen‚ a lot of male worker bees‚ and a few male drones. Ninety-five percent of the worker bees are female. A healthy hive is occupied by a collection of many generations. Tasks are divided up by age and colony through an intricate system of communication. Younger worker bees tend to the queen and the baby bees. Older worker bees forage for food and water for the colony‚ convert nectar into honey‚ construct wax
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