larger organisms that are higher up on the food chain. No one has been positively sure about what phylum they were meant to belong to, although, considering that they have soft and small bodies, they have previously been grouped in resemblance to Arthropods; recently, they have come to acquire their own phylum (Dean). However, the bigger mystery seems
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Ebola virus disease or simply Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses. The virus is acquired by contact with blood or other body fluids of an infected human or other animal. Fruit bats are believed to be the normal carrier in nature, able to spread the virus without being affected. Symptoms usually begin with a sudden influenza-like stage characterized by feeling tired, fever, pain in the muscles and joints, headache, and sore throat. The fever is usually greater
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Tikhomirova 1 Tatiana Tikhomirova Marcio Pre-Degree I 3 March 2014 Life Cycle of a Frog Despite the fact that the frog is a small animal, in terms of symbolism, it is of some interest. In ancient Egypt, because of its fertility, as well as a striking transformation from egg to a tadpole, and then in the quadruped animal, the frog was considered strange creature and was a symbol of emerging and ever-renewing life. Often, the ancient gods of care arising out of the mire, depicted with frog heads.
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spiders (Lin, et.al. 2015). When females select a male, the attractiveness is correlated with the diet of the male (Lin, et.al. 2015). Possessing a distinct colour can also function in some organisms, as a mean of luring prey, especially in nocturnal arthropods (Lin, et.al. 2015). Lin, et.al. (2015) hypothesized that the white area found on the
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also has an effect on animals. Acid rain directly or indirectly affects animals of all types. The animals most in danger are delicate aquatic animals. Because acid rain changes the pH of water, these animals’ entire habitat is altered. Fish and arthropods die in water with a pH of anything less than 5. (Batema
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By Shaina Herring The Amazon River is the fuel source for the 2,100,000 square mile Amazon rainforest . Spanning 9 countries in northern South America, this rainforest is so rich in plant life it produces approximately 20% of the worlds oxygen. Boasting the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon includes various ecosystems from swamps to savannas resulting in this particular biome housing the largest collection of plant and animal species in the world. Fascinating creatures
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Symbiosis in biology is described as a relationship between two organisms in an environment and how they interact with each other. There are three forms of symbiosis that occur in the wild: mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. There are also two forms of competition including interspecific and intraspecific. Mutualism in biology is a form a symbiosis in which both participants of the relationship benefit from one another. In the everglades, examples of two animals that perform in mutualism
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Beren Robinson’s Field Study The field study by Beren Robinson is an exceptional study of threespine sticklebacks, which relate to ecology evolution. The original findings of researchers differ from Robinson’s field study. Robinson’s hypothesis states the threespine sticklebacks diverse phenotypes are the creation of natural selection supporting the discrepancy in the population. The variables in the study are diet and environmental conditions. Ecologists use evidence and observation to quantify
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infected farm animals. A tiny gram-negative bacterium Coxiella burnetii is the agent that causes Q fever. It’s usually classified with other intracellular parasites known as Rickettsia. Coxiella is the only member of this group that does not need an arthropod vector for transmission. Cases of Q fever are most frequently reported from western and plains states where ranching and rearing of cattle are common. Q fever was first described as a disease among workers in a meat packing plant, the letter Q in
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with the Dengue virus are mostly from Americans who traveled out of the country. Infection of the dengue virus causes dengue fever. The virus weakens the circulatory system and leads to a deadly hemorrhaging. “Dengue fever is the most prevalent arthropod-borne viral illness in humans and is caused by family related to the virus that cause yellow fever, hepatitis C, and the Japanese St. Lou serotypes of DV causes spectrum of clinical disease ranging from an acute debilitating self-syndrome (dengue
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