a cryptodire.Cryptodires hide their head inwards. | Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (the crown group of the superorder Chelonia)‚ characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed
Premium Sea turtle
creature‚ but its unique characteristics to survive and hunt made it the most feared predator on Komodo Island in Indonesian. According to Lisbeth Dermody‚ writer for Cricket magazine‚ Komodo Dragon is an ancient species whose ancestors date back to Mesozoic Era. The present day Komodo Dragon can weigh up to 365 pounds‚ and grow as long as 10 feet tall. “Like mythological dragons‚ this creature is covered with scales that look like chain mail armor.” Douglas Burden‚ of the American Museum of Natural
Premium Dragon
Europeans have been among the peoples in the area. The Sahara Desert is almost as large as China or the United States. The Sahara Desert is home to more than 2.5 million people. F o r m a t I o n o f t h e S a h a r a D e s e r t During the Mesozoic era (200 to 70 million years ago)‚ the desert was completely covered by the sea. Over millions of years the skulls of animals were compressed into the kind of rock called “sedimentary.” Then the ocean withdrew due to global warming‚ leaving the rocks
Premium Sahara Earth Desert
Biology Study Guide Which one of the following statements is false? Selected Answer: a. Factors that alter DNA and make cells cancerous are called carcinogens. Which one of the following is false? Selected Answer: b. DNA packing tends to promote gene expression. Silencers are sites in DNA that Selected Answer: c. bind repressor proteins to inhibit the start of transcription. Proteins that bind to DNA and turn on operons by making it easier
Premium Gene expression Gene Evolution
Impacts from Space and Mass Extinction Events A. Understand the concept of a biosphere and Earth System Science and that the biosphere has evolved over time. -Mass extinction: a crisis that affects life right across the planet from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains -Biosphere: all life on Earth is a part of the biosphere‚ a thin layer of life that exists on the surface of the planet and that interacts with the hydrosphere (oceans‚ lakes‚ and rivers)‚ the atmosphere‚ and the lithosphere
Premium Extinction event Dinosaur
Origin of Earth and Evoluation of the Environment MODULE - 1 Environment through Ages 1 ORIGIN OF EARTH AND EVOLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT We live on a beautiful planet called earth‚ along with a wide variety of plants‚ animals and other organisms. Our earth‚ however‚ is part of a vast universe. The universe is about 15 to 20 billion years old. The age of the earth is approximately 4 to 5 billion years‚ while human beings evolved only around 2 million years ago. In this lesson‚ you shall learn
Premium Solar System Oxygen Life
Adaptive Radiation Adaptive radiation occurs most often in new environment with a variety of different unfilled niches so that plants and animals that are not adapted to those areas can exploit the resources in the respective niches. Once individuals begin exploiting the new niches‚ mutations that will benefit the species will spread throughout the population via natural selection giving the owners an overwhelming advantage over others without the mutation and throughout evolutionary time
Premium Evolution Bird Charles Darwin
Rachael Jacobson Cosmic Education Exiled to India during World War II‚ Maria Montessori developed one of the basic tenets of her philosophy of education. This tenet is what she called cosmic education. In To Educate the Human Potential (ed 2007 p9) Montessori said that‚ “the stars‚ earth‚ stone‚ life of all kind form a whole in relation to each other‚ and so close is this relation that we cannot understand a stone without some understanding of the great sun”. This interconnectedness
Premium Earth Human Universe
extinction phenomenon. Prothero‚ D.R. (2004) stated that the extinction to which the dinosaurs finally vanished is called the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction at the end of Mesozoic Era‚ which commonly abbreviated K/T extinction. Indeed‚ the K/T extinctions wipe out not only the dinosaurs but also the ammonites‚ the marine reptiles‚ plankton and many others marine invertebrates. 2. The main possible causes for the K/T mass extinction 2.1 Volcanic eruptions Fastovsky‚ D.E. and Weishampel‚ D.B. (2005)
Premium Dinosaur Extinction event Cretaceous
Fall 2012 BISC 120Lg – M/W/F 10 A.M. section EXAM 3 Instructor: Dr. Karla Heidelberg PLEASE READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. 1.DO NOT start until instructed. 2.Make sure you have a total of 9 pages. Instructions for filling in the Blue Scantron Answer Sheet: 1. Enter your name in the NAME field (your last name first)‚ and fill in the appropriate bubbles. 2. Enter your USC STUDENT ID NUMBER in the field labeled IDENTIFICATION NUMBER‚ and fill in the appropriate bubbles
Premium Cnidaria Intertidal zone Annelid