The Praying Mantis
.... The Mantidae family, in turn, is part of the
order/suborder Mantodea that includes a variety of mantid-like species. But the
existing literature does not reflect a clear consensus about what insect order
Mantodea belong in. Some have placed Mantodea in the Dictyoptera Order-with the
roaches. Others place Mantodea in the Orthoptera Order-with crickets and
grasshoppers. Finally, some believe that Mantodea constitute their own
independent order of insects. There seems to be an emerging consensus around
this position.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
The Mantis Religiosa was first named such and classified by the inventor
of the modern .....
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Predator - Prey Relationships
.... and the predator derives nourishment
from the prey on which it feeds(Nitecki 1983). Parasitism is different from
most normal predator prey situations because many different parasites can feed
off of just one host but very few predators can feed on the same prey(1973). In
parasite-host relationships most commonly the parasite is smaller than the host.
This would explain why many parasites can feed off of one single host. Another
difference in parasite-host relationships is that normally the parasite or group
of parasites do not kill the host from feeding, whereas a predator will kill it’
s prey(1983). Efficient parasites wil .....
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Prions
.... Pruiser and his team of scientists at the School of
Medicine of the University of California at San Francisco in which a study was
carried out on mice to see if he was able to purify the scrapie agent ,another
prion disease, in mice. But mice as humans took very long to develope the
disease, for example Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease or fatal familial
insomnia, which appear mostly on humans which have passed the age of forty and
only in very rare cases before, so the experiment was changed to hamsters as
these die faster because developed the disease earlier. One of the methods used
for this purification process was using .....
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Properties Of Water
.... also has a very high heat of vaporization. Converting one gram of
cold water into ice requires 80 Calories of energy. Converting the same amount
of very hot water into steam requires 540. The high amounts of energy required
to change water from its liquid state make water tend to stay a fluid. The
process of freezing water involves slowing down the activity of the water
molecules until they contract and enter into a solid state. Once the ice is
cooled down to 4 degrees or less, the hydrogen bonds no longer contract, but
they become rigid and open, and the ice becomes less dense. Because the ice has
become l .....
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UFOs
.... is with government
secrecy, because it widens the gap between citizens and the government,
making it much more difficult to participate in the democratic process
(Stacey 40)," says Steven Aftergood while addressing UFO secrecy. The UFO
enigma, or as it is formerly know as the "'Cosmic Watergate' : the ongoing
cover-up of the government's knowledge about extraterrestrial UFOs and their
terrestrial activities (Stacey 36)" is believed to be started during the
Nixon administration, which is still under alot of scrutiny. The Nixon
Administration also established the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] in the
1970s', it opened the door .....
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Protein Synthesis
.... from the tRNA and is a protein.
This process allows for the genetic information stored in the DNA to be
expressed in the physical and functional makeup of the cell.
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Acid Rain
.... as limestone or other known antacids can neutralize acids entering
the body of water thereby protecting it. However, large areas of Ontario that
are near the Pre©Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or granite based geology and
little top soil, there is not enough buffering capacity to neutralize even small
amounts of acid falling on the soil and the lakes. Therefore over time, the
basic environment shifts from an alkaline to a acidic one. This is why many
lakes in the Muskoka, Haliburton, Algonquin, Parry Sound and Manitoulin
districts could lose their fisheries if sulphur emissions are not reduced
substantially.
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Mitochondria
.... and
related processes to produce the ATP required to perform cellular work.(Campbell
182-9)
Pyruvate, or fatty acids from the breakdown of triglycerides or
phospholipids, pass easily through pores in the outer mitochondrial membrane
made up of a channel protein called porin. The inner membrane is a more
significant barrier and specific transport proteins exist to carry pyruvate and
fatty acids into the matrix. Once inside the matrix, pyruvate and fatty acids
are converted to the two carbon compound acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl CoA). For
pyruvate this involves a decarboxylation step which removes one of the three
carbons of pyruva .....
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Sharks
.... yet, it could have been the overall storyline: A Great
White shark with an eating disorder and a taste for human flesh. Perhaps that’s
what is keeping vacationers from grabbing their trousers and snorkels.
Over all, there have been 1026 attacks on humans by sharks in the last
ten years. Only 294 of these attacks have been linked to Great White sharks.
That’s roughly the number of people who drown each year in swimming accidents.
Of these 294 attacks, less than eighteen percent were fatal. Out of the
eighteen fatal incidents more than seventy percent was contributed to loss of
blood. This means that the shark didn’t kill th .....
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Aquarius
.... means "well bucket". Situla was
the original Arabic name for the entire constellation Aquarius.
There are three star clusters contained in Aquarius. M2, which was
discovered in 1764, is one that can be seen with a small telescope. A larger
telescope is needed to make out the individual stars. M72 is another cluster
that is located southeast of Albali and isn't far from the Saturn Nebula. NGC
7492 is the third cluster and is located east of Skat.
Aquarius also has two nebulae in it. It is called the Saturn Nebula
because it resembles the rings on Saturn. A very large telescope is needed to
see its rings. It was disco .....
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Near Earth Objects
.... collisional fragments and burned-out short-period comets.
According to Dr. Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona Spacewatch program,
"The total number of NEOs over 100 meters is estimated to be about 100,000, with
150 or so currently known".
Do they pose any real threat to Earth? The Earth orbits the Sun in sort
of a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to impacts from asteroids. It is only
fairly recent that we have come to appreciate that these impacts by asteroids
pose a significant hazard to life and property. Although the annual probability
of the Earth being struck by a large asteroid is extremely small, the
conseque .....
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The Siberian Tiger
.... black stripes,
however in winter, the yellow fades to near white for better camouflage. It's
body is heavily muscled for great strength. It's hearing and sight are
excellent, and it's night vision is five times better than a humans.
The Siberian Tiger is now very rare and on the endangered species list,
mainly because poachers illegally slaughter them for their fur. Currently,
there are less than two hundred animals in existence.
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