Biodiversity study guide 1. Briefly describe how our species started to appreciate the biodiversity of the planet (in a geographical and historical context)? Through the concept of evolution‚ ecology‚ population‚ community and the environment. Species through different periods evolve physiologically and adapting to new environments. Animals who can’t live or survive in certain regions either migrate or die. Common ancestors often link to present day organisms showing biologically and different
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are recognized by taxonomist to have nearly one million recognized species. It is estimated that their are over ten million species still undiscovered. Because of this the insect orders are thought to be the least well known. Most of which are beetles and insects in tropical areas. Insects are part of 28 living orders which all have three body sections‚ head‚ thorax‚ abdomen and six legs and a pair of antenas. They are split in to two groups‚ Apterygota and Pterygota‚ Pterygota can fly while
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by building an army and taking back the Rhineland‚ and this helped give Germans hope for the future. Hitler was an intelligent man‚ he had many ideas‚ not just those that he became famous for. One of these ideas included the immensely successful "Beetle"‚ or "Volkswagen’s" car design. Hitler designed this when he was sitting at a restaurant table in Munich in the summer of 1932. During Hitlers time only the most economically elite had cars in Germany. Hitler believed that all people should be able
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to the folk tales‚ there are myths‚ legends‚ many proverbs‚ tongue twisters‚ and riddles. In the African folk tales‚ the stories reflect the culture where animals abound; consequently‚ the monkey‚ elephant‚ giraffe‚ lion‚ zebra‚ crocodile‚ and rhinoceros appear frequently along with a wide variety of birds such as the ostrich‚ the secretary bird‚ and the eagle. The animals and birds take on human characteristics of greed‚ jealousy‚ honesty‚ loneliness‚ etc. Through their behavior‚ many valuable
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Donatello was a Renaissance artist born in Florence‚ Italy. He was famous for his artwork in bas relief‚ a type of shadow relief sculpture. * St. Mark * Zuccone | * The Feast of Herod * David | * Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata * Judith and Holofernes | Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He hailed from Florence‚ Italy. * Fortitude * Adoration of the Magi * The Birth of Venus | * Primavera * Cestello Annunciation * St. Augustine |
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are animals such as lions‚ African wildcats‚ klipspringer‚ steenbok‚ Burchell’s zebra‚ African Savanna monitor‚ and puff adders. They have the largest diversity of hoofed animals in the world including antelopes‚ wildebeest‚ buffalos‚ zebras‚ and rhinoceros. Fire‚ ground water‚ water table‚ soil’s moisture retention‚ landforms (plateau‚ mountain‚ valley) and their slope ( < 3% to > 10%)‚ soil temperate‚ days of cloud cover versus days of sun for amount of sunlight and it influence‚ first &
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In order to investigate the possibility of thought without language‚ Project Nim saw Herbert S. Terrace attempting to teach American Sign Language to a young chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky. The goal was to ascertain whether a chimpanzee could combine the signs it was taught to produce different meanings‚ inspired by a previous project that had claimed their ability to do so. The project’s results were disappointing‚ indicating that the chimpanzees were unable to use the signs to form meaningful sentences
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combine it to make a whole new animal. Amy got fired from her old job for her unorthodox splicing experiments involving different animals. She genetically fuses different animals together to make things like a pig and a chicken mixed with a human‚ a rhinoceros with a bunny‚ a snake with a cat‚ etc. She uses these animals to protect her lair and to keep her company. Some positive and negative effects of using biotechnology in this way are you could create new animal species. Companies could figure out
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Ferdinand Porsche[2] (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He was best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric)‚ the Volkswagen Beetle‚ and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK‚ as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles. Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen‚ which was the first race car with mid-engine‚ rear-wheel drive layout. Known in business circles as the "great engineer"‚[3] he made a number
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had a price similar to that of a small motorcycle. The factory was built in Wolfsburg in 1938 and the prototype of the first Volkswagen car was designed by Erwin Komenda. It was the original car to have the shape of what would be become the iconic Beetle. The intention was to get Germans to take part in a savings scheme to pay for these cars‚ 336‚000 people saved enough to be eligible but unfortunately none of them ever received their car as their savings were stolen during World War 2 and only a
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