The diploid stage of plants is the sporophyte. ... Plants have altering haploid-diploid nuclei. ... The major characteristics defining groups of Eubacteria include the nature of the cell wall, the shape of the cell, motility, and physiology. The common characteristics that eubacteria share include no nuclear membrane, they are all prokaryotic unicellular organisms, they experience no mitosis, and contain no membrane bound nucleus. ... Plants get much of their energy from the sun, and in order to overcome competition with other plants, they needed to be taller. ...

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Typically, the hypothesis tested with chi square is whether or not two different samples (Coleoptera (beetles) and Diptera (flies) are different enough in some characteristic or aspect of their behavior that we can generalize from our samples that the populations from which our samples are drawn are also different in the behavior or characteristic. The figure below shows our raw data for insects trapped on pitcher plants at different times of the day. ... This gives us the different times each category of insect is trapped by the pitcher plant in terms of percentages as below. ...

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There are five characteristics that are common to all living things. ... Another characteristic that living things share is that they reproduce. ... The third characteristic of living things, is that all living things need to grow and develop. ... The fourth characteristic of a living thing is the ability to obtain and use energy. ... These five characteristics of living things are just the basics to knowing what makes up living things. ...

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Genetic modification changes the genes and thereby the characteristics of the subject. ... When a scientist genetically modifies a plant, they insert a foreign gene in the plant's own genes. ... The result is that the plant receives the characteristics held within the genetic code. Consequently, the genetically modified plant also becomes able to withstand pesticides. ... Improved growth characteristics will produce better crops without the need for large quantities of fertilizer. ...

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Students were asked to document what specimen possess each characteristics. ... The origin of the characteristics were mapped by the descriptions of the clues. ... Animals share many characteristics along with an evolutionary history. ... Animals differ from plants and fungi when it comes to nutrition. ... Collagen is the most abundant of proteins and is not found in plants or fungi. ...

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After reading "Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds" I can conclude that many parents have a similar mindset that if their child is not doing well it is because they are not doing a good job as parents. ... In the article "Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds" the author Richard Friedman begins by introducing one his clients. ... On the other hand, I have also seen parents who give their child everything they need, and most importantly they are always there giving them love, but they still have different characteristics that makes them seem mentally il...

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They determine the characteristics of an organism. Genetic engineering involves either altering these characteristics within an organism or transferring them to another. ... When cloning, scientists take cells from one organism that has particular characteristics that they believe to be useful. ... This second set of cells usually contains different characteristics that are also believed to be useful. ... Genes are being added to plants to enable them to remove heavy metals like mercury from the soil and concentrate them in plant tissue. ...

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Consequently, animals which would never have survived in the wild managed to survive reproduce and subsequently create an entirely new breed of animal with characteristics that donot appear in the wild. ... In selecting plants for food, they might have first consciously selected plant varieties that had desirable taste and unconsciously selected varieties with high nutritional value. At different times in different centers of domestication, people began to encourage the growth of desirable plants by removing competing plants and/or cultivating the soil. ... Over time, humans learned to sel...

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The male plants are obviously flowered and taller (Pate 1994). ... This plant is banned in many countries (Kepe 2003). ... Cannabinoids are released by the epidermal glands of the plant (Pate 1994). ... Observing the morphological characteristics of Cannabis sativa L. may be important in the drug identification especially in incidences where other characteristics are insufficient (de Pasquale et al. 1974). ... This similarity in hair types between other plants and marijuana has led to the need for the identification of distinguishing characteristics of Cannabis sativa L. trichomes that can sti...

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Some characteristics of the rainforest are: temperatures are usually hot and steamy, the average yearly temperature is 77*F. ... The soil in the rain forest is poor in nutrients that can benefit its plants. When the plants die they free nutrients back into the soil, but they are rapidly absorbed again by other plants. ... The under story plants have built-up atypical traits to handle low levels. ... The plants come in many diverse breeds. ...

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Purpose: To understand how cells function and how they are involved in all the characteristics of life. ... The plant cell had a blue tint, but the other two cells were stained so you really couldn't tell their true colors. ... I learned that all cells have different structures, but some parts can be found in both plant and animal cells. ... It seemed the plant cells had more organization than the cheek cells. ... Both plant cells seemed to have more of the same size cell. ...

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For centuries humans have been using hybridization to create better plants. ... Through biotechnology scientists are able to insert a specific gene or genes into a plant and give it new advantageous characteristics. ... "All of the proteins that have been placed into foods through the tools of biotechnology that are on the market are non-toxic, rapidly digestible, and do not have the characteristics of proteins known to cause allergies."" says Commissioner Jane E. ... USDA's animal and plant health inspection service oversees the agricultural environmental safety of planting and field te...

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It has been used in increasing the production plant and animal food, developing disease-resistant plants, diagnosing disease, improving medical treatments, and producing vaccines and other useful drugs. ... This method is most commonly for increased food production; only the plants and animals that have desirable characteristics are chosen for reproduction. ... This is done by changing the protein makeup of an organism; which results in an alteration of its characteristics. ... The introduction of Bt cotton, a now widely grown crop kills several pests that would have previously harmed cotton ...

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I hope to accomplish a proof that a flowering plant evolved from an oscillatria. ... This organism possesses the same attributes as the euglena except for one major evolutionary characteristic. ... Starch is a major component of a plant and the presence of starch in an early organism like the chlamydoma can only lead to the idea that this was the first organism in the evolution of the plant. ... The concrete evidence that the land plant evolved from the microscopic organisms like the paramecium. ... These "plants" are the first to display rhizoids or roots in order to live on land. ...

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The Mayan's discovered a plant that produced a sap that had sticky and springy characteristics. This plant today is now commonly known as a rubber plant. ... The good thing about mixing the sap with the morning glory juice is that these two plants tended to grow close to one another which made it easier to harvest them. ... The only attempts to make the rubber better was by adding different plant juices to the latex sap, but the process never had a dramatic impact on the rubber's qualities. ... Men working in the winter time after got tears in their boots because the rubber los...

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These characteristic traits seem to be very definite to each brother, but maybe somewhere deep inside a different person is waiting to erupt and be released. ... Then when the brothers made trees and plants for the earth, berries and fruits were made by the good brother for his animals to eat. The evil brother produced briars, and poison ivy, and the poisonous plants like baneberry and dogberry, and the suicide root for people to kill themselves when they go out of their mind. ... The twins helped each other discover the opposite characteristic in their mind and one was for the better, but...

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The remains of plants and animals found in sedimentary rock deposits give scientists an indisputable record of past changes through time. ... Specific characteristics from their parents by inheriting particular combinations of genes are received by all plants and animals. ... Consequently, their characteristics will be more frequent in the following generation. ... Due to selective breeding, people have urbanized many new varieties of plants and animals. Organisms will more commonly have the preferred characteristics because the individuals in the generation before lacking the sought-after...

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It is possible to transform almost all the plants cultivated by man. Genetic modification can efficiently add or change a gene in a plant to give the plant a new or improved characteristic e.g. resistance to drought or enhanced nutritional properties. ... The results were compiled from various studies of growth, blood, tissue, and other characteristics in rats and mice. ... Corn borers damage the leaves and stalks of corn plants. ... In 1996, farmers planted 1.7 million hectares of the crops. ...

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Two of the largest are Plants and Animal. ... Plants range in a variety of sizes and shapes. ... The most important characteristic of plants is their ability to photosynthesize. During photosynthesis, plants make their own food by converting light energy into chemical energy, a process carried out in the green cellular organelles called chloroplasts Parts of the Plants Cells: The many varieties of plant species have distinct cell types that make up individual plants. ... Characteristic: Animals are multicellular organisms; they share some of the same features with plants and many fungi. ...

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Impatien plants are much like human babies. ... Perennials and annuals are two types of flowers and plants used in flower gardens that complement each other. Perennials are flowers that are planted, bloom, die back and come back again the next season. ... Human couples complement each other by having opposite characteristic traits like the perennials and annual flowers do. ... It is really great when you take several varieties of flowers and plant them together in clusters. ...

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Stilt/prop roots grow downwards from the trunk and branches, providing gas exchange in the exposed sections and water uptake in the sections below the sediment and are characteristic in Rhizophora stylosa and Ceriops tagal. ... Most plants have a very low tolerance for salt, but in mangroves, twice a day, the high tide rushes in and covers the majority of plants in saltwater. ... Some salt, however, still enters the root system, and is stored within the plant in its leaves, stems and roots. Consequently, there are often very high concentrations of salt in mangrove plant leaves. ... Conserving ...

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The Karamajong showed characteristics of both Neolithic and Paleolithic humans. ... Women were responsible for many tasks including taking care of their children, having their own garden, building huts, making gourds, and providing plants and insects as food. ... The women had their own garden where they could produce plants to eat if the growing season was decent. ... The Karamajong domesticated their plants and animals, which is a sign that they were more Neolithic than Paleolithic. ...

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Narcotics are depressant drugs, they are mostly made from a plant that produces the drug opium, the plant is called a poppy. ... The human body produces certain steroids that help us grow and give us our adult physical characteristics. ...

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There are many different characteristics in the ocean that physical oceanographers investigate to gain further details. Some of those characteristics include; salinity, density, temperature of air, wind speed, tides, underwater construction, and thermal energy. ... A chemical oceanographer could help in situations such as spilled oil and thus will result in saving many plants and animals living within the ocean. ... Oil is very toxic to most plants and animals except the bacteria that is capable of biodegrading the oil. Plants are a big factor in the oxygen cycle and help convert carbon dioxid...

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Rainforests are identified by their climate, controlling factors, geographic distribution, distinguishing characteristics and related features. ... Both the Amazon Rainforest and Congo Rainforest are identified as tropical rainforests because they share the characteristics previously mentioned. ... "The Amazon consists of 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and more than 370 types of reptiles" (worldwildlife.org); while the Congo rainforest consists of its own assortment of living things. ... Yes, they may be categorized as tropical rainforests, have similar climate...

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