Soleil Navarro College Prep Mr. Pohl April 14‚ 2017 Monoculture is bad Wondering about how our food is farmed isn’t a popular thing to do. I personally had never thought of the process until I read an article on the effects of monoculture. This made me realize that to get food for today we may be destroying the world tomorrow. By this I mean that the easy process of monoculture to yield large amounts of food is actually hurting us. When people think food they never quite stop
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Petai [pic] In the world of plants‚ petai plants can be classified in the family Leguminosae (Mimosaceae). Petai scientific name is parkia speciosa . Petai usually grow with the height of 5-25 meters and forms a lot of branching. Part of the petai that is most important is the seed. Petai can be eaten raw as a fresh vegetable‚ boiled‚ fried or even baked. Petai is also widely used as food flavoring. It is very popular in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore‚ Thailand
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stimulant drug. Caffeine is found in varying quantities in the seeds‚ leaves‚ and fruit of some plants‚ where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding on the plants‚ as well as enhancing the reward memory of pollinators. An experiment was held‚ on an aquatic invertebrate called ‘Daphnia’‚ to investigate the effect of caffeine on its heart rate. The fact that Daphnia is a transparent organism facilitates the experiment as it allows us to see its internal organs
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The car plunged from sun drenched desert into tall‚ dark palms. Into a different world. Inside‚ the road softened to a track that wound and bumped its way forward over sandy‚ unimproved soil‚ shielded from the sun’s glare by walls of greenery. That is‚ the track came about as close as any vehicleway can to being in harmony with earth and vegetation. But before long it ended; just petered out. A few yards ahead‚ nestling so naturally among the palms that at first my eye hardly registered it‚ stood
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plant is a perennial plant which blooms in the spring and summer and wilts in autumn and winter. The plant can grow to about two feet in height and the leaves tend to be a gray-green to a white-green in range. The flowers tend to have a number of pollinators such as bees‚ butterflies‚ and hummingbirds. It is known that this species attracts butterflies. The flowers range from purple‚ pink‚ white‚ or red in color and produce nutlet fruits. The native range of this species is the Mediterranean and Northern
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Beekeeping Would the average person know that a honey bees’ wings stroke 11‚400 times per minute‚ making a distinctive buzzing noise (Delaplane). There are many things that people don’t know about bees. Such as when beekeeping started‚ the difference between hobbyist and commercial beekeepers. There are also different types of bees‚ different types of honey and different uses of honey. Most people are perfectly fine never encountering a bee or knowing anything about them. A human’s first reaction
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Chapter 38: Angiosperm Reproduction and Biotechnology I. Overview: Flowers of Deceit 1. Angiosperm flowers can attract pollinators using visual cues and volatile chemicals 2. Many angiosperms reproduce sexually and asexually 3. Symbiotic relationships are common between plants and other species II. Concept 38.1: Flowers‚ double fertilization‚ and fruits are unique features of the angiosperm life cycle 1. Diploid (2n) sporophytes produce spores by meiosis; these grow into
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The National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) was established in 1933 in response to a catastrophic event in the Southern Great Plains region know as the “Dust Bowl” or “Dirty Thirties”. In 1869‚ the railroad made its way to the Great Plains and became home to the many early settlers who took advantage of the “free soil” or land tracts offered by the government via the Homestead Act; a bill enacted in hopes to curb slave labor and increase the number of individual farmers who owned and operated
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Microteach #1 Lesson Plan Name: Chelsea Niemann Subject: Biology Grade Level: High School Sophomore Lesson Title: Plant Structure Next Generation Sunshine State Standards: Benchmark SC.912.L.14.7 - Relate the structure of each of the major plant organs and tissues to physiological processes. Rationale: Knowledge obtained in this lecture will serve as a stepping stone to aid students in future lectures‚ such as photosynthesis‚ plant cell structure‚ mitosis‚ etc. Knowledge of plant
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Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms In the 1940s‚ Ernst Mayr coined the term Biological Species Concept that was subsequently widely embraced by the scientific community. The definition stated that "Species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups". Certain mechanisms are in place to prevent species from interbreeding with others and these are referred to as reproductive isolating mechanisms‚ which are biological
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