Why are Living Organism so Diverse ? Regardless of world’s life diversity‚ we all‚ from the ant to the whale and us humans have DNA linkage‚ which gives us the evidence for one common ancestor. The question that comes up now is how from this very primitive common ancestor did we all end up so diverse. Biologist have dedicated they life to answer this question‚ Through this essay I shall show how through different aspects life has become so diverse. Timescale Life as not evolve suddenly from its
Premium Evolution Species Natural selection
17.06.2011 TOK Essay 8. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of deductive‚ inductive and informal reasoning in relation to discovering new information and facts‚ and if there is a need for discovering other ways of thinking in order to gain more knowledge about what we already know. Introduction: The question I have decided to answer is what are the importance between the strength and weaknesses of deductive‚ inductive and informal reasoning? Definitions: Deductive: a form of reasoning
Premium Logic Reasoning Deductive reasoning
To Darwin this was puzzling‚ since he knew of only one species of this bird on the mainland of South America‚ nearly 600 miles to the east‚ where they had all presumably originated. He observed that the Galapagos species differed from each other in beak size and shape‚ and also
Free Charles Darwin Evolution Natural selection
There are many marine animals that are classified as cephalopods. A cephalopod is an aquatic animal that has bilateral body symmetry‚ a set of tentacles or arms‚ and a distinctive head. Cephalopods are the most intelligent and the most mobile of all the molluscs. There are many types of cephalopods: differing in size‚ shape‚ and their living habits. Two types of cephalopods are squid and octopi. Although‚ squid and octopi are both classified as cephalopods‚ they have many differences. Squid and octopi
Premium
Over the years‚ it seems as if the agricultural industry has been more focused on the quantity‚ more than quality. As a society‚ we have been manipulated by companies into thinking we are eating all natural ingredients. Before companies started serving our foods with chemicals‚ authentic food came from animals that were free to roam on pastures and that were freshly cut and packaged. Now the food comes from a factory farm‚ which is when animals are treated as if they were machines designed only to
Premium Livestock Agriculture
Cockfighting Cockfighting—a blood sport in which two roosters specifically bred for aggressiveness are placed beak to beak in a small ring and encouraged to fight to the death—has been around for centuries. Roosters were first bred for fighting in Southeast Asia more than 3‚000 years ago‚ and cockfighting later spread to Greece‚ Rome and Britain before crossing the Atlantic about 200 years ago. The brutal “sport" found popularity in North‚ South and Central Americas‚ and was particularly prevalent
Premium
“In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti In this paper I will be exploring the social criticism that is conveyed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in his poem “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See.” Ferlinghetti criticizes the industrial revolution in America; he compares its outcomes with war. Ferlinghetti alludes to various paintings by Goya that depict war‚ and links their interpretation to the industrialization in America. The poem contains various poetic elements such
Premium Beat Generation Poetry Landscape
material on a damp and dismal day like today though. As Mother Sparrow sifts through the twigs and grasses‚ she finds that they are mostly soggy and limp. The rainwater slides from her feathered head and forms irritating drips on the end of her busy beak. “Ooh‚ it’s nooo sort of a day for nest building is it‚ dear?” Betty Blackbird sympathizes very much with Mother Sparrow.
Premium English-language films Family Mother
I awoke on a beach‚ completely soaked‚ with salt water up my nose‚ and sand in every uncomfortable place imaginable. Drenched black hair obscured my sight. Cold sea air chilled my bare back. If I didn’t move soon I would die of hypothermia. I stood on my trembling legs. The cold wind bit at my chest. The sky was dark and it was clear that it would rain soon. Broken boards and scattered crates littered the shore. Clearly I was on some kind of ship‚ but where I was or where I came from was lost to
Premium Apostrophe
Cuttlefish Evolutionary History The cuttlefish are an amazingly developed animal species with many specialised traits that make them perfectly suited to most‚ if not all‚ types of underwater environments. This is the animal this presentation will be looking into. Evolution is commonly described as a theory‚ However that is a common misconception‚ all different types of evolution‚ e.g. Darwinism and Lamarckism‚ are actually considered both fact and theory. As palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould says
Free Evolution Charles Darwin Natural selection