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Reproduction Most Flatworms
680 wordsNOTESCharacteristicsFlatworms are parasitic unsegmented, bilaterally symmetrical worms that lack a coelo m but that do have three germ layers. Some forms are free living but many are parasitic. Flatworms have a nervous system that consists of head ganglion (brain), usually attached to longitudinal nerve cords that are interconnected across the body by transverse branches. Flatworms lack a respiratory or circulatory system, these functions take place by absorption through the body wall. Nonparasi...
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Living Situation
637 wordsDescribe a time when you lived with others (outside of your family). Describe your role in that living situation. What do you know about yourself and how you relate to others in groups? Honestly, living here in the dorms at Santa Clara is my first time actually living with people outside of my family. I was a little hesitant at first too, because it meant that I had to step outside the comfort of my family who accept me regardless and enter into a whole new world I was completely unfamiliar with...
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Important Coral Reefs
460 wordsCoral Reefs need to be preserved for many reasons. In this paper I will discuss a few of them. First of all, they houses a collection of diverse organisms, and contribute fisheries which provide food items such as fish, crustaceans, and mollusks. Furthermore, coral skeletons are being used as bone substitutes in reconstructive bone surgery and maybe able to provide important medicine, including anti-cancer drugs and a compound that blocks ultra-violet rays, they even help reduce global warming b...
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Classification Of Viruses
795 wordsViruses: Complex Molecules or Simple Life Forms? Viruses have been defined as 'entities whose genomes are elements of nucleic acid that replicate inside living cells using the cellular synthetic machinery, and cause the synthesis of specialised elements that can transfer the genome to other cells. ' They are stationary and are unable to grow. Because of all these factors, it is debatable whether viruses are the most complex of molecules or the simplest life forms. While the definition of living ...
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Organ System Level
939 words1. Give several examples of the diversity of living things. Organism inhabits almost every place on Earth. Even the most extreme locations contain life. Tiny organisms inhabit the Antarctic ice, giant worms live near hot vents on the ocean floor, and some organisms even live inside other organisms. 2. Explain how the parts of the biosphere interact to maintain life. Organisms interact with earth other and with the environment. A meat eater will eat a grass eater, who feeds on plants, then the me...
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Deceased And The Vegetable
433 wordsEuthanasia Should a patient who has lost all powers of reasoning and who lives like a vegetable, totally hopeless and helpless, a terminal case who only wants to die, be forced to live? The number of people who are asking this question increases each day. Although the official position of the medical profession is to maintain life, regardless of the condition of the patient, but with certain cases, euthanasia should be administered. We are living in an age of medical miracles. Medicine, has made...
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Chytrids And Other Water Molds Many Fungi
538 wordsThe kingdom of Fungi contains single-celled and multicellular organisms that absorb nutrients for food. Fungi, together with bacteria decay and decompose organic matter. Some fungi can be parasitic and cause serious diseases in plants and animals. Though considered an individual kingdom today, traditionally fungi were classified as plants with no stems, leaves, or chlorophyll. About 100,000 species of fungi are known. Most fungi are made of protoplasm-containing tubes called hyphae, sometimes di...
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Different Organic Compounds And Many Amino Acids
1,140 wordsAlexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane developed a theory of Biogenesis between the years of 1922 and 1928. With Oparin's "The Origin of Life" and Haldane's technical papers they created concrete hypothetical models from their knowledge of physics and biochemistry. Their only obstacle was practical proof to base their discoveries upon. Oparin speculated that Earth, in its early stages, had several different reactions occurring caused by nature. Organic compounds formed out of inorganic material tha...
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My Nintendo Gamecube
455 wordsRight now I am going to try to explain to you, that in fact, my Nintendo Gamecube is ALIVE, and a species of its own. Although it may not look as if it is subsisting, it is by all means! In the following paragraphs I will prove to you that my Nintendo Gamecube does indeed possess the 7 characteristics that a living organism must have. To start off, my Gamecube possesses many living cells on its surface and on its inside from my shedding skin cells. All over the controllers and the system itself,...
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Three Organisms Live In Extreme Habitats
738 wordsTECHNOLOGY Two Biology – Procaryotes Procaryotes TECHNOLOGY Two new technologies have enabled scientists to develop a new classification system. These include the electron microscope, which show fine details of the structure of cells and the development of specific biochemical techniques. These recent developments have found that three genera of eubacteria are so different biochemically from other groups that a new kingdom called the Archaebacteria. These Archaebacteria live in extreme cli...
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Living Organisms In The Biosphere
613 wordsThe biosphere is part of the earth in which life exists. It is 20 km thick from the bottom of the ocean to the lower atmosphere. It consists of three layers: the lithosphere, which is the land on the surface of the earth; the hydrosphere, which comprises of the water on the earth as well as water vapor in the air; and the atmosphere, which is made up of the air that surrounds the earth. The living organisms in the biosphere interact and affect each other in many ways. This is called a biotic fac...
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