certain functional activities which include metabolism‚ growth‚ reproduction‚ and some form of responsiveness and adaptation. 2. What are the characteristics of living things? Organization Homeostasis Metabolism Growth Adaptation Response Reproduction 3. Create a table with two columns with the headings living and non-living and place the following under the appropriate columns. Frog‚ snail‚ ovule‚ liver‚ flower petals‚ hair follicles‚ carbon dioxide‚ tear ducts‚ heart‚ peas‚ algae‚
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The range of an organism and its dispersal is limited or affected by many things in its surroundings. These things can be slightly different in their specifics from organism to organism but generally‚ for all organisms‚ these are the main restrictions to their range and dispersal (either natal or breeding). The first limiting factor to the distance they can travel from their population or parent is the resources available. One artificial barrier is habitat fragmentation by humans and their use of
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types of passive transport; diffusion and filtration (Marieb 68). In this experiment the focus is the importance of diffusion‚ the random movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to areas of lower concentration. Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion where water moves through a selectively permeable membrane (a membrane that only allows certain molecules to diffuse). Diffusion or osmosis occurs until dynamic equilibrium is reached‚ or has been reached. When equilibrium is reached‚ it
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Diffusion is how substances more in and out of the cell. There are several types of diffusion‚ but for the purposes of this lab‚ we will be focused on simple and osmosis. Simple diffusion and osmosis are vital for the diffusion of water and maintaining homeostasis. Homeostasis is the ability to maintain equilibrium and keep the organism alive. For example‚ if a cell is placed in a hypotonic solution there is more water inside the cell that outside which will cause water to diffuse out in attempt
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Sometime in the near future I plan on being a parent myself. With today’s food selection though I will be watching and picking carefully through the many types of foods I decide to feed my children because of the existence of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in our everyday foods. Coming up in the world this is not a very broad topic because of its lack of research revealed to the public. GMOs is a very large income source for food companies and even our very own government. I have been researching
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Osmosis is the movement of water across a membrane. It always navigates to the area of the membrane with a higher solute concentration. We take a closer look at the effects of osmosis in this lab through the examination of red blood cells (sheep)‚ plant cells (elodea)‚ and active transport in yeast. Under the microscope‚ we can determine the effects on plant and animal cells exposed to hypotonic‚ hypertonic‚ and isotonic sodium chloride solutions. Plant cells have a cell wall; however‚ animal cells
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Osmosis is the net movement of water from a high concentration of water to a low concentration of water down a concentration gradient. This is done to equalise the solute concentrations on the two sides. Therefore‚ in other words‚ the movement of water is depended on the concentration of dissolved solute in the water (in this case the sucrose) and if there are a higher concentration of sucrose in the visking tubing‚ the water in the beaker will move into the visking tubing to make both solution balanced
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Demonstrating osmosis Introduction The movement of water in and out of a system bounded by a membrane permeable to water‚ but not certain other substances‚ can be inferred by either mass changes or volume changes in that system. It is possible to monitor other changes in physical conditions‚ such as texture. Monitoring mass enables quantification of the changes‚ whereas other changes may only be qualitatively measured. Equipment / materials 4 eggs Sugar Distilled water Acetic acid Scales
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Hydrothermal Vents and its Organisms! A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet’s surface from which geothermally heated water issues. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places‚ areas where tectonic plates are moving apart‚ ocean basins‚ an hotspots Hydrothermal vents exist because the earth is both geologically active and has large amounts of water on its surface and within its crust. Common land types include hot springs‚ fumaroles and geysers. Under the sea
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Osmosis Rates in Artificial Cells Daniel George Department of Biology Grand Valley State University 1 Campus Drive Allendale‚ MI 49401 georged@mail.gvsu.edu Abstract The lab for this paper was conducted for the topic of osmosis‚ the movement of water from high to low concentration. Five artificial cells were created‚ each being filled with different concentrated solutions of sucrose. These artificial cells were placed in hypertonic‚ hypotonic‚ or isotonic solutions for a period of 90
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