DEPARTMENT OF LIFE AND CONSUMER SCIENCES Animal Diversity I ZOL1501 Semester I: Assignment no.: 01 MEMO 2014 QUESTION 1 [10] a. Monophyletic group is a group that includes the most recent common ancestor of a group of organisms‚ and all of its descendants. b. Parthenogenesis is a unisexual reproduction involving the reproduction of young by females not fertilized by males. c. Metamerism is a condition of being composed of serially repeated parts (metameres). Serial segmentation. Metamerism is
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to “enchanted spider webs.” She used Professor Trevelyan’s History of England to find out where women stood in society. She discovered that women were beaten and arranged into loveless marriages and it was seen as socially accepted. She then thinks of the women she was familiar
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Weird Animals Lesser water boatman ( Micronecta scholtzi): The loudest penis on Earth The lesser water boatman‚ just 2 millimetres long‚ is the loudest animal on Earth and more impressive fact is that he makes its noises using its penis instead of its mouth or legs or wings. James Windmill‚ engineering expert‚ in mid-2011 from the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) reported in PLoS One that the lesser water boatman can produce sounds
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Cultural control • Non-flooded seedbed • Transplanting older seedlings • Draining the paddy • Biological control • Braconid wasp – parasitizes larva stage • snails (feed on eggs)‚ hydrophilid • dytiscid water beetles (feed on larvae)‚ • Spiders • dragonflies‚ • birds (feed on adults)‚ Chemical control • Filiar spray or granules in paddy water Green semiloopers • Larva moves by arching its back in the shape of a loop as the larva does not arch its back
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futures I could experience threatens to overwhelm my solitary present. Some days‚ I am the dancing bear‚ who wears funny hats to dance for pennies. On those days‚ I float--not nimbly like the trapeze artist‚ not guilelessly like dandelion seeds or spider silk‚ but
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A Fairy Song Over hill‚ over dale‚ Thorough bush‚ thorough brier‚ Over park‚ over pale‚ Thorough flood‚ thorough fire! I do wander everywhere‚ Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen‚ To dew her orbs upon the green; The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies‚ fairy favours; In those freckles live their savours; I must go seek some dewdrops here‚ And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. A Madrigal Crabbed Age and Youth
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Anglo-Saxons were superior to the Filipinos. Albert J. Beveridge from Indiana wrote that God made the “English-speaking and Teutonic peoples…the master organizers of the world” (Beveridge‚ 15). Beveridge believed that Anglo-Saxons were the dominant race of the world and that they needed to govern their inferiors to “establish system where chaos reigns” (Beveridge‚ 15). Beveridge wrote that Americans were “trustees of the world’s progress” (Beveridge‚ 15) because he believed Americans were more economically
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The Beveridge Report‚ 1942 The Background to the Report (a) The Wartime Coalition under Churchill gave considerable thought to post-war reconstruction. This had been badly handled after 1918 and there was a general determination not to allow it to happen a second time. As early as 1941 a committee was instigated to study “reconstruction problems”. This committee commissioned Sir William Beveridge (a Liberal) to “undertake a survey of the existing national schemes of social insurance
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it independence‚ but Beveridge and the imperialists advised otherwise. With control over the Philippines Beveridge saw an opportunity to secure an Asian empire with access to Asian markets and naval control over the Pacific. He even felt it to be America’s “destiny” to have a future strong relationship with the Far East. In addition to benefits to the U.S.‚ he claimed America to have the duty of helping the people of undeveloped lands such as the Filipinos. However‚ Beveridge makes assumptions based
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HISTORY OF THE WELFARE STATE: The role and significance of the Beveridge Report in establishing the Welfare State in Britain. The purpose of this essay is to look at the long history of the Welfare State in Britain and the evolving social‚ economic and political changes in society today‚ as well as the birth of the Welfare State after the Second World War which was the turning point (watershed) in British History. The freshly appointed Labour government by then took on the job of setting up a
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