Questions: 1) What could account for the reversal against expectation? Answer: size of the mainland pool of species, lack of differences in dispersal ability among the mainland species, and competition between species. 2) Why aren’t all species equal in the larger context? Answer: Some species live in much greater jeopardy of extinction than others. The rare species, the highly specialized species, the less competitive species, and the species having low aptitude for dispersal and colonization
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Mendel on Patterns of Inheritance Gregor Mendel, a monk, well read in natural sciences (Pruitt & Underwood, 2006, p. 64), wanted to answer the unanswered questions that stemmed from Darwin’s theory about heredity. He chose to study the pea plant to gain knowledge about how heredity works. Mendel’s success is contributed to the way he chose to conduct his experiments. Mendel decided to keep his control group small, unlike
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Plants and gardens have a greater purpose than simply to be an eye catching source of food. While mainstream medicine largely continues to deny the inherent healing capacity of natural plants and herbs, the insect world is abuzz with activities that confirm the plant world to be nature's medicine cabinet. According to a new study published in the journal Ecology Letters, the Monarch butterfly routinely uses medicinal plants to help its offspring resist disease and infection. Researchers observed
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EVOLVING EVOLUTION Bejarasco, Aubrey Jayl A. BS Biology IV April 21,2012 Earth: only habitat that sustains LIFE, where number and variety of plants is astonishing. How can we make sense of such a huge range of living organism? Holy bible, explain how this wonderful diversity came about as shown in the movie; how God created the Earth, how Adan came into life and how Eve was created from his ribs, as then God said to them: “go and multiply”. This was the Theory of Creation, but
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Social evolution is the study of applying evolutionary logic to explain the change of mankind and animal lifestyles and behaviors. Human behavior has changed from the beginning of time to the present time. All the topics I have learned about in lecture are very interesting because I discovered things that I never knew. Also, I learn why some animals and humans behave the way they do and the reasons behind it. However the most interesting topic for me was kin selection because I found it exciting
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Criticial Thinking Questions Chapter 3 Question 3: The principle to uniformitarianism is the "past is the key to the present". This essentially means that scientist are essentially able to hypothesize about what happened in the past with the materials and processes available or seen today. One example of this is being able to determine that sandstone most likely derived from sand dunes millions of years ago. As the obvious wind patterns in both the stone and the sand are very similar. Chapter 3
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existence of God, one has to look at the observable phenomena such as the complexity of the universe, laws of nature and inconsistencies in proposed theories. The complexity of the universe suggests the presence of a Supreme Being. While the evolution theory tried to explain the origin of man, it failed to provide substantial evidence on the complexity of the human being (Hatcher, 1994). In fact, the theory suggests that a human being evolved from a single cell organism. However, the complexity
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What is a worldview? A world view is one’s own philosophy upon how they view life and how their views will affect the outcome of their lives as well as other’s. Whether it be from a choice we make on a daily basis, IE: Speaking to people how we would want to be spoken to, Treating others as we would like to be treated, Or even giving your own personal insight on a certain subject. Without our individual worldviews as a mass we would all live a very dull life without knowing which way is the correct
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other species for sustenance, some for shelter, or hunting skills. The reasons why species rely on each other vary; however, the need is infinitely important. We will discuss why genetic diversity is so important. We will explain why population management and diversity is necessary to the successful survival of every population. Lastly, we will compare and contrast the ex situ and in situ methods of conservation. It is extremely important for humanity to take responsibility for the failings of some
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Tabetha McCrimmon BSC 1005 September 9, 2012 Is Empathy in Our Genes? This interesting article by Amanda Macmillan from CNN.com is about human genes. This article states that certain character traits are linked to a gene variation in our DNA. Traits such as honesty, empathy and understanding are said to have not only their own gene, but also the gene is a receptor for the brain chemical oxytocin. Oxytocin is also called the “love hormone” and is associated with certain social behaviors such
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