limestone quarry high in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale. “Wonderful life” teaches the reader about animals and the evolution of our understanding of these animals’ relationships to the organisms of today. Summary “Wonderful Life” expresses the beauty of the organisms themselves. The Burgess Shale‚ discovered by Charles Walcott contains fossils of creatures from ancient oceans. Gould believes that The Burgess
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Did you know that literally anything can change or affect an ecosystem. All kinds of relationships affect an ecosystem. An Ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Changes to an ecosystem can literally change and affect everything in it. Things outside of an ecosystem can affect an ecosystem. Everything connects together. Living and nonliving changes to an ecosystem can change and affect everything in it. It affects it in positive and negative ways
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birds and non-Avian dinosaurs into two separate groups. However‚ the phylogeny of these organisms reveals that the bird lineage actually branches off of the dinosaur lineage‚ and so‚ in phylogenetic classification‚ the birds should be considered as a part of Dinosauria. Linnaeus’s classification system is considered inadequate today as a means of accurately representing the degree of relationship between two organisms. Up until recently‚ Neanderthals were classified as Homo sapiens neandertalensis. They
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the most unusual places of all: other planets. The other one is “These organisms are so different from anything we know”. What it says in the article to back this up is “these organisms may live for an astonishingly long time — perhaps millions of years. The clay they call home settled onto the ocean floor 86 million years ago. They may be tens‚ or hundreds‚ or thousands‚ or even millions of years old‚ he says. These organisms need oxygen and nutrients to survive. Most of their food drifts down from
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sun through photosynthesis Phytoplankton- Small plant organisms that drift water currents and use carbon dioxide‚ release oxygen and convert minerals through a form animals can use most abundant and widespread producers in the marine environment Consumers Heterotrophic- cannot make their own food‚ consume other organisms or absorb dissolved material herbivores or carnivores Decomposers Bacteria that break down dead organisms‚ animal waste‚ dead tissue releases nutrients to support
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penetrates a human ovum a new entity comes into existence. A “Zygote” is the name of the first cell formed‚ the earliest stage of the human embryo. Some questions raised are is it human‚ is it alive‚ is it just a bunch of cells or is it an actual organism‚ a “being?” The zygote is composed of human DNA and other human molecules‚ so it is undeniably human. The human zygote also has a genetic composition that is absolutely unique to itself. It is different from any other human that ever has‚ and ever
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Rebecca Joseph‚ Rhea Mathews‚ Daniella Harris‚ Tara Saju 10-21-14 Ms. Stephenson AP Biology Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs Autotrophic organisms are called “producers” because they create their own food. The word “autotrophic” in Greek means “self-feeding”. Most autotrophs are green plants‚ algae‚ and some bacteria. A small number of bacteria‚ including the ancient Archaea group are capable of generating food from sulfur or other chemical reactions‚ but the majority
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• Why are the process of mitosis and meiosis both important to a living organism? Living organisms need cell division in order to grow and reproduce. Mitosis and meiosis are two types of cell division. Mitosis occurs in vegetation cells‚ while meiosis occurs in reproductive cells of animals. In mitosis‚ a parent cell divides into two identical daughter cells that are the same as the parent cell. Meiosis produces four daughter cells that contain half of the genetic information of the parent
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over time 1. Living things are based on a universal genetic code a) All organisms sore the complex information they need to live‚ grow and reproduce in a genetic code written in a molecule called DNA. b) That information is copied and passed from parent to offspring c) With a few minor variations‚ life’s genetic code is almost identical in every organism on Earth 2. Living things grow and develop a) Every organism has a particular pattern of growth and development b) During development‚
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primary form of reproduction for single-celled organisms such as the archaea‚ bacteria‚ and protists. Many plants and fungi reproduce asexually as well. While all prokaryotes reproduce asexually (without the formation and fusion of gametes)‚ mechanisms for lateral gene transfer such as conjugation‚ transformation and transduction are sometimes likened to sexual reproduction. A lack of sexual reproduction is relatively rare among multicellular organisms‚ for reasons that are not completely understood
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