Although Add-a-Land may only be a small 65 mile island the land gleans with lush foliage, rippling blue waters, majestic mountains and native animals. All of these attributes contribute to Add-a-Lands unique surroundings. Add-a-Land, is located near the equator. This tropical rain forest is sunny, hot and humid year round. The temperature never drops below 80 degrees. However, since it is so hot and there is high humidity Add-a-Land does receive mass amounts of rain during its rainy season
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The American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is an organism that has a dark gray back and wing feathers with white arcs around the eyes and a white super cilium. They are usually known for their yellow bill and reddish-orange chest feathers. Also they have streaks of black on their white throat and their under tail covert feathers are also white. The American Robin can weigh anywhere from 54 to 94 grams, and can grow from 23 to 28 cm long with a wingspan of 31 to 41 cm. The organism usually resides in
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most fundamental processes that take place in plants and some other organisms. Photosynthesis converts solar energy into chemical energy of a carbohydrate (Mader & Windelspecht, 2013).The whole process takes place in the chloroplasts of green plant cells containing the pigment chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is one of the most important molecules in existence as all energy capture starts from there (Mader, 2010). If none of this pigment is in existence, plants would be able to absorb all spectrums of light
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The pathogenicity of entomopathogenic fungi, Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and Verticillium lecanii, was evaluated against the adult of vine mealybug ,Planococcus ficus (Signoret) under laboratory conditions by dipping bioassays. The results showed that the virulence of B. bassiana was higher than the virulence of M.anisopliae and V. lecanii. In case of B. bassiana isolate, the LC50 value was 6 × 104 conidia /ml while LT50 recorded 5.30 days at 5 × 107 conidia /ml. Results showed that
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The Shubunkin goldfish have been developed from mutations in telescope eye goldfish (Demekins) back in 1900 in Japan. Diet: Omnivore. In the wild, they feed on a wide range of food including plants, small crustaceans, insects, and detritus. In captivity, they will accept most aquarium food including pellets, flakes, and live prey such as worms. Additional information: The Shubunkin, also known as the “Poor Mans Koi” or Chu-wen-chin in China
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Screening of various plants viz; Oreganum vulgare (Oregano), Ocimum basilicum (Basil), Cymbopogon citratus (Lemongrass), Corriander sativum (Corriander), Mentha piperita (Mint), Trigonella foenumgraceum (Fenugreek) and Aloe barbadensia (Aloe Vera) have been screened for the presence of protease enzyme. 4.1 Screening of various plants for protease enzyme Protease has been extracted from various plant samples and assayed for enzyme activity using standard protocols as mentioned in materials
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Ecology is a group of interconnected elements which is formed by the interaction of living organisms with the other organisms and its surrounding environment. Ecosystems are a functional unit which comprises of ecology and the environment where living and non-living things work together. A.G. Tansley in Singh (1935) defined ecosystem as 'a particular category of physical systems, consisting of organisms and inorganic components in a relatively stable equilibrium, open and of various sizes and kinds'
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Did you know that there is a 200 pound deadly creature lurking around the Everglades? It can grow up to 23 feet and kill anything in its path.These deadly creatures are the Burmese python and they are taking over!. There are many ways the presence of Burmese pythons are changing the ecosystem in the Everglades. These snakes are causing many problems to the animals and ecosystem in south Florida. Although many solutions have been tried, nothing so far has worked. To begin with, Burmese pythons
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What is biodiversity? Some may say it is just merely a number of species within an ecosystem. However this is not the case, as majority aspects of our lives solely depend on biodiversity. Water, food and air are produced directly by different species and the quality of these resources depend on other species activities. According to the convention of biological diversity "Biological diversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine
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They were interested in getting information about light intensity’s effect on the rate of photosynthesis in their plants, and if it did have an effect, how much it would be. Based on the p-values we calculated on the rate of photosynthesis of the chloroplasts in our experiment, we must recommend that the intensity of light will not affect the overall rate of photosynthesis in their plants. The average rate of change from one foot away from the light source was .1764, from two feet away from the light
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