One thing that almost every living thing needs to be able to live is seeds. Seeds provide a food source that is not from meat and herbivores are able to survive. Different seeds can from both plants‚ and fruits. When plants want to reproduce the plants make seeds that can be dispersed by air‚ water‚ or animals and the seeds that survive find a place in the ground to start grow. For some plants‚ the seeds are in protective shelling like fruits and pinecones. This extra protection layer is there to
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Susan Griffin compares and contrasts cellular life and weaponry as she writes her essay‚ Our Secret. She uses these ideas together with characters and events‚ to help explain causes and effects in the essay. She alternates from the cell’s function to the history of weaponry throughout the essay. With both these ideas‚ she starts at the elementary level‚ with a cell’s life and with the Vergeltungswaffe missile‚ and tells how they progress. In this essay‚ I will describe how Griffin uses cellular life
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Write your name here Surname Other names Edexcel International GCSE Centre Number Candidate Number Biology Unit: 4BI0 Science (Double Award) 4SC0 Paper: 1B Monday 9 January 2012 – Morning Time: 2 hours You must have: Ruler Calculator Paper Reference 4BI0/1B 4SC0/1B Total Marks Instructions Use black ink or ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name‚ centre number and candidate number. Answer all questions. Answer the questions in the spaces provided
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urpose: The purpose of this lab is to determine the impact of light on the germination of seeds Research: A seed is the reproductive unit of a plant that contains a mature ovule with an embryo. The seed is made up of the seed coat hard shell over the seed‚ two cotyledons‚ fleshy membranes that store food‚ an epicotyl‚ which forms the primary shoot‚ the radicle‚ the primary root of the seed‚ and the hypocotyl‚ the stem of the epicotyl. When the seed is triggered by water to sprout‚ a process called
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Several studies show that music possesses properties that affect the growth rate of plants in different ways. These properties may be the wavelength of the music‚ its frequency or even its tempo. According to a study conducted by Margaret E. Collins and John E. K. Foreman‚ entitled The Effect of Sound on the growth rate of plants (2001)‚ plants growth is directly affected by sounds of varying frequencies. They observed that when plants are exposed to pure tones‚ it affects the growth of the plant
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similarly explained in his online article on Family Research Council‚ “The zygote is composed of human DNA and other human molecules‚ so its nature is undeniably human and not some other species. . . It is also quite clear to us that the earliest human embryo is biologically alive. It fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life: metabolism‚ growth‚ reaction to stimuli‚ and reproduction.” He makes the argument very clear that when the sperm and egg fuse together‚ a new entity that
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Commission on Higher Education Cataingan Municipal College Cataingan‚ Masbate PRELIM EXAM Educ.1 Name:_________________________________________ Score:______________ Permit no.:_______________________________________ Schedule:___________ I. Identification: 1. ________________________refers to the changes that are directional‚ leading forward rather than backward. 2. ________________________ is the development or unfolding of traits present in the individual from his hereditary
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problems during and after pregnancy. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is a condition which leads to various irreversible problems; it is considered to be poisonous because it causes great damage before conception‚ and most importantly‚ the developing embryo. The effect on the fetus varies; some are more affected than others. When the alcohol enters the body of a pregnant mother‚ it enters her bloodstream which travels pass the placenta to the fetus. It takes a significant amount of time for the fetus
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Why are pregnant women always complaining? The simple answer is that a pregnant woman’s body is always changing. When this is said‚ many think of the physical changes that one can see or feel. However‚ even though these physical changes are important‚ the true question is what causes these physical changes? Physical changes to a pregnant women’s body are the result of physiological changes. What is a physiological change? To understand what this kind of change is‚ the term physiology must be understood
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Development usually comes in stages‚ as in the changes in the complexity of an individual and a rise in skills or knowledge‚ such as learning how to walk. Conception to birth (0-9 months) P1) The internal development is the development of the embryo in the mothers body which is needed to absorb oxygen and food from the blood for the baby. At this stage all of the developments are physical changes. M1) Physically about two weeks after a woman’s menstrual period the ovary releases an egg‚ which
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