Survey of Animals: Zoo Questions Please type the answers of the following questions: 1. What function‚ other than hearing‚ do the African Elephant’s ears serve? Answer: The African elephant uses its ears as signaling organs. Ears are also used to regulate body temperature and are used as a protective feature in the African elephant to ward off potential threats. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. What color is the rump of a Hamadryas Baboon
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I- Context and issues More than 4 billion people around the world are deprived of access to decent accommodation‚ including 150 million in developed countries. In India alone 500 million people want and need better housing‚ 400 million of these are rural dwellers and 100 million live in the slums of India. There is an urgent need for all stakeholders to work towards creating solutions which can improve the living standards of a this large percentage of the population both in rural and urban settings
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Kingdom Protista Protist: Eukaryotic organisms (usually unicellular) that is not a fungus‚ plant or animal * 90% are unicellular organisms * Split based on locomotion * The kingdom divides into three main sections being: animal-like‚ plant-like and fungus-like. Then they are split based on their form of locomotion. * They live in moist environments -> aquatic environments or blood. * Even though they are single-celled‚ they are MUCH larger than Archae and bacteria (refer
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The Cheetah I’m going to talk to you about the Cheetah‚ Where it lives‚ how it hunts‚ how the grass helps the cheetah‚ mating‚ and what you can do to help the endangered species. The Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus) is the fastest land mammal on earth‚ capable of speeds of 60-70 miles per hour. Cheetahs live 12 years (17 in captivity) and mature at 20-23 months of age. They are highly territorial. A typical adult cheetah weighs between 80 and 140 pounds and eats about 6 pounds of meat per day. They rarely
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Federal court rules Telephone Consumer Protection Act does not apply to commercial SMS text messages sent to cellular phones. The ruling came a few weeks ago in Satterfield v. Simon & Schuster‚ No. C 06-2893 CW‚ 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46325 (N.D. Cal. June 26‚ 2007)‚ a case involving the transmission of an SMS text message promoting a popular author’s "mobile club" to a cellular phone used by a seven-year-old child. The defendants‚ the publishing company that contracted for the transmission of
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Vol 454j14 August 2008jdoi:10.1038/nature07190 REVIEWS Genomics of cellulosic biofuels Edward M. Rubin1‚2 The development of alternatives to fossil fuels as an energy source is an urgent global priority. Cellulosic biomass has the potential to contribute to meeting the demand for liquid fuel‚ but land-use requirements and process inefficiencies represent hurdles for large-scale deployment of biomass-to-biofuel technologies. Genomic information gathered from across the biosphere‚ including potential
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Rodenticidal Potential of Gliricidia sepium George Willard Gehan M. Siton IV James Miyuki M. Sugimoto Christian Gregg Rivera Jason R. Galay Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University South La Union Campus College of Education Laboratory High School Agoo‚ La Union Research (Elective II) Chapter I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Plants are living organisms that belongs to the kingdom of plantae. They include organism such as herbs‚ trees‚ bushes‚ grasses
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FACP 2 APPROACHES AND PRACTICES IN PEST MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY: MESHELEMIAH A. SALLEVA SUBMITTED TO: MR. STEVE DOMONDON WABAN PEST IN THE RICE Common name: Scientific name: 1. Rice Hispa Dicladispa armigera 2. Rice Leaf Folder Cnaphalocrocis medinalis 3. Striped Stem Borer Chilo supressalis 4. White Stem Borer Scirpophaga innotata 5. Yellow Stem Borer Scirpophaga incertulas 6. White-Backed Planthopper Sogatella furcifera 7. Brown Plant Hopper Nilaparvata lugens 8. Ant Selonopsis geminate
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long tail to hang from tree to tree for their grip. Kinkajous’ teeth are good for eating big food and ripping apart its food. They also hide in the upper branches from the birds of prey. It benefits from its environment by feeding on insects such as termites. They are not endangered because people rarely see them. They sleep during the day and only come out at night. They don’t travel in packs‚ they travel alone therefore it’s hard to find one kinkajou at a time. Living in the thick vine tree and not
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Diversity in Living Organisms Q 1 Name the branch of the biology that deals with the classification. Q 2 Who was the first to propose the two-kingdom system of classification? Q 3 Who proposed three-kingdom classification? Q 4 What is meant by triploblastic? Q 5 What is haemocoel ? Q 6 Name the person who has given the five-kingdom classification. Q 7 Which is the largest phylum of animal kingdom? Q 8 What is the function of canal system in sponges? Q 9 What are Gymnosperms
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