Human beings have reached the top of the food chain due to evolution and they have evolved to not only become intelligent but also answer the previously unanswered questions of the universe. I want to be able to study these fascinating creatures and figure out how they have arrived to this point by examining their genes. Apart from the main science subjects (biology chemistry and math) I have also taken economics at AS level as I have always been fascinated by what funds a country and how money
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The very short answer is yes, we should definitely be concerned with the rate of extinction. According to Chivian and Bernstein although extinction is a natural phenomenon that occurs at a rate of about one to five species per year, we are now losing species at 100 to 10,000 times that rate. There are literally dozens of species going extinct every day (Chivian & Bernstein, 2008). We should also be concerned because while past mass extinctions are believed to have been caused by events like
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how does human activity affect nature? human activity affects nature in many ways, as time goes on and civilization advances nature pays the toll more and more. due to the number of the human population rising constantly more and more animals need to be killed for food but in the lines of nature more space is required for living so forests may be cut down meaning less oxygen in the air which increases harmful gases in the air which could lead to more acid rain so more plants could be killed. we
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and tigers of the sea. Sharks are in danger. They are hunted by humans for their fins with lines. The population does not realize the massacre that sharks are victims of. Predators are controlling the ecosystems.The oceans are the life support system of the planet, change this life support would be a real threat. The world is afraid of sharks and do not see the importance to help sharks or to save them. The first help requires by sharks conservators are to consider sharks as a real animal and
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Kelsey Williams Professor Reiner March 29, 2016 BIOL-108 Island Biogeography Lab Write-Up Purpose of lab: Calculating how many species were migrating to different islands Hypotheses: The main factors are island size and distance from the island. We hypothesized that islands close to a source area should have a higher number of species than islands further from the source area for islands of equivalent areas. Larger islands should have more species than smaller islands for islands
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The rapid development of technology has tremendous effects on changing the life of us, and possibly some of our children. Thanks to the immense progress of bio-techniques, creating a new individual with enhancement of selected traits has been partially realized on animals. For instance, some geneticists have introduced an additional gene NR2B into mouse genomes. Consequently, these genetic-modified mice learned things significantly faster from the environment and retained knowledge longer than other
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Charles Darwin is important to the society now because of the hypothesis that he has made. In the science world, he was known for learning about genetics. He was a man whose theories seemed to appear as the truth. Darwin found different birds and also the theory of natural selection. These are some of his well known hypotheses. Charles Darwin, had found species of birds and named them all similar. The birds are Finches, the birds come in different shapes and colors. The finches originated from
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Glacier National Park History Glacier National Park was established as a national park on May 11,1910. The park was nicknamed the Crown of the Continent by George Bird Grinnell. The park bordering Glacier (Waterton Lakes National Park) was established in 1895. The two joined together in 1932 to create Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Like many other parks, the purpose of this park is to preserve the nature and wildlife of Glacier. Also the natural beauty of the park. This park
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God’s existence. Beauty, in a naturalistic worldview, is incompatible with the idea of evolution. Evolution states that an organism is created, then naturally adapts to whatever circumstances it is thrown into. Therefore, Beauty has no biological purpose, it only has a spiritual purpose. It is an experience that brings someone closer to the spiritual world. Furthermore, because beauty did not come from evolution, it must’ve come from a divine entity. Therefore proven that God does in fact exist. This
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increased the probability of being accepted by females, this promotes the idea that the sexual signal is based on visuals, which is a very rare phenomenon for nocturnal species (Lin, et.al. 2015). Fishing spiders attained the white stripes though evolution to increase the foraging success, which also led to a function in how female assessment of males based on the white stripe (Lin, et.al. 2015). However, the white stripes may be hazardous in terms of predator risk, as the white colour allows for
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