...Intentionally, those feelings are actually a part of nature that homo sapiens share with all other members of Kingdom Animalia who reproduce sexually. While many will argue that sexual attraction is controlled by a sex gland or society, the truth is that it is determined by a pea-sized gland, ironically located on the brain, called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus regulates homeostasis. It controls many emotions and feelings naturally needed for survival. When the hypothalamus is informed of a condition, it secretes chemicals and hormones to the blood stream to signal the body for an innate and necessary response. Hunger, thirst, self-defense, and sexual reproduction are included in that list of important sensations. Just like the brain tells an organism when it is hungry, it also signals the body to react when an attractive being walks by. "The heart pounds, the muscles tense; he or she feels dizzy and light headed," (umkc.edu). The creature also usually feels an urge to attempt to mate. It is widely known, yet scarcely recognized, that -- despite race and ethnicity -- the same kind of people are strikingly attractive or unattractive to almost everyone. While this detail is acknowledged, the reason for it is typically unheard of. The truth comes from nature; the motive for a good judgment of sexual attraction is to have good reproductive sense. Humans, among other animals, naturally seek a young, healthy, well-reproducing mate. Likewise, organisms are repelled — consciously...
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...Animal Kingdom opened on April 22, 1998 which on this day it is also Earth day. It has now been about 20 years since it was open. It was the fourth park in the Disney World Resorts it is one of the newest by far the largest theme park. This place has an average of about 54,000 people visiting in one day in total for the year would be about 19.3 million people. The Animal Kingdom is number one theme park in the world .The plan for this place was to inform people about animal conservation. Disney created similar habitats for the animals there like those animals that are not in captivity. Animal Kingdom’s 500 or so acres are homes to over about 1700 animals with about 300 types different species. The newest addition to Animal Kingdom and one of its best attractions is the World Of Avatar. Two of the biggest attractions are the Avatar Flight Of Passage, and Na’vi River Journey. On the ride Avatar...
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...the lessons on each animal group. Day 2: Animal groups: This will entail a lesson on the six animal kingdoms: Reptiles, fish, amphibians, birds, insects and mammals. Day 3: Animal Classifications: This will be a follow up from last day where I introduced them to the five groups, on this day instead I will give them different characteristics that characterize each group. Day 4: Life Cycles: This will deal with the different cycles each animal group has to go through. Day 5: Metamorphosis: Another lead in from the Life cycles lesson. Day 6: Offspring: I will be discussing with the students the animals and their babies. Day 7: Caring for their young: Here is where we will have a lesson on how the animals take care of their young. Day 8: Identifying the Needs of the animals: Like humans, animals have certain needs too and I will delve into these needs. Day 9: How they meet their needs: Another follow up from the previous lesson, I will do a part two lesson where I will teach a lesson on how the animals meet these needs. Day 10: Habitats: This is where we’ll discuss the homes of the animals. Day 11: How the animals move: This deals with how they use their bodies to run from their prey. Day 12: Adapting to the Environment: How these animals survive in their environments and where they live. Day 13: Food Chain: where their groups belong on the food chain. Teacher: Marianne Lettieri Grade: 2; Animal Groups Specific...
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...The Six Kingdoms | When Linnaeus developed his system of classification, there were only two kingdoms, Plants and Animals. But the use of the microscope led to the discovery of new organisms and the identification of differences in cells. A two-kingdom system was no longer useful.  Today the system of classification includes six kingdoms. |   The Six Kingdoms:Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria. |  | How are organism placed into their kingdoms?       Cell type, complex or simple       Their ability to make food       The number of cells in their body | PlantsYou are probably quite familiar with the members of this kingdom as it contains all the plants that you have come to know - flowering plants, mosses, and ferns. Plants are all multicellular and consist of complex cells.  |  In addition plants are autotrophs, organisms that make their own food.  | With over 250,000 species, the plant kingdom is the second largest kingdom. Plant species range from the tiny green mosses to giant trees. | Without plants, life on Earth would not exist! Plants feed almost all the heterotrophs (organisms that eat other organisms) on Earth. Wow! | AnimalsThe animal kingdom is the largest kingdom with over 1 million known species. Sumatran Tiger - Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum, Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Carnivora, Family Felidae, Genus Pathera, Species tigris |   All animals consist of many complex cells. They...
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...evolutionary history of organisms. The purpose of such a classification is to provide a clear and practical way to organize and communicate information about organisms. Classification can show relationships between different ancient and modern groups, indicate the evolutionary pathways along which present-day organisms may have developed, and provide a basis for comparing experimental data about different plant and animal groups. Organisms included in a group share a common genetic heritage in their DNA, and they must be more closely related to each other than they are to the members of other groups of the same rank. However, classifications of organisms are modified as ideas of their phylogeny change. Taxonomy is the theory and practice of classifying organisms. It is a branch of systematics, the study of the diversity of organisms. The first scheme for classifying animals into logical groupings may have been proposed by Aristotle more than 2,000 years ago. Since that time, many new classification systems have been proposed; none, however, has succeeded in fitting all plants, animals, and microorganisms into a single, completely satisfactory scheme. For example, some taxonomists classify algae with the protista or consider them plants. Recently, biotechnological techniques have enabled researchers to compare the DNA of various organisms to decipher the phylogeny of some organisms and helped to distinguish some closely related species with similar appearance. HISTORY ARISTOTLE (384-322...
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...TAXONOMY (From ancient greek: τάξισ taxis, "arrangement", and -νομία -nomia, "method") is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. 5 KINGDOMS Kingdom is the highest rank used in the biological taxonomy of all organisms. There are 5 kingdoms in taxonomy. Every living thing comes under one of these 6 kingdoms. The six kingdoms are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. 1. KINGDOM MONERA [10,000 species]: Unicellular and colonial--including the true bacteria (eubacteria) and archaebacteria. ndividuals are single-celled, may or may not move, have a cell wall, have no chloroplasts or other organelles, and have no nucleus. Monera are usually very tiny, although one type, namely the blue-green bacteria, look like algae. They are filamentous and quite long, green, but have no visible structure inside the cells. No visible feeding mechanism. They absorb nutrients through the cell wall or produce their own by photosynthesis. a. Archaebacteria - The archaebacteria kingdom (Archaebacterium in Latin) is made up of single-celled organisms and the name of the kingdom means “ancient bacteria.” Scientists actually believe that members of the archaebacteria kingdom were among the first life forms on Earth billions of years ago. These species lack cell structure and their genetic material is not contained inside of a nucleus. The cells of archaebacteria are called prokaryotes. Archaebacteria...
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...Of Ocean Tides and Understanding Whether she is writing essays, novels, or memoirs, author Barbara Kingsolver focuses her lens on the natural world. The memoir Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is the author’s testament to the power of locally grown foods. In Prodigal Summer, the Appalachian wilderness is as much a character as are the human protagonists. In her essay “High Tide in Tucson,” she recognizes that as humans we are part of the animal kingdom and that we have a natural responsibility to connect to what is most basic about our nature in order to persevere. Characteristic of Kingsolver’s writing, she draws readers in with superb imagery. Before touching upon theme, she tells a story – one of a hermit crab that has taken an unlikely journey to the desert. Her character isn’t just an ordinary hermit crab but “an outlaw against nature” with “red stiletto legs splayed in all directions.” Her words “outlawed” and “splayed” emphasize the crab’s foreignness. The crab is a transplant in the desert, much as the author is. She says: “When I was twenty-two, I donned the shell of a tiny...
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...taxonomists use the following categories of classification: species, genus, family, order, class, phylum and kingdom. Recently, a higher taxonomic category, the domain, has been added to this list.Kingdom is the second highest taxonomic rank below domain. It is divided into categories called phyla, each phylum is divided into classes, each class into orders, each order into families, each family into genera, and each genus into species. Living organisms are subdivided into 5 major kingdoms, including the Monera, the Protista, the Fungi, the Plantae, and the Animalia. Each kingdom is further subdivided into separate phyla or divisions. Generally "animals" are subdivided into phyla, while "plants" are subdivided into divisions. Organisms in any given Kingdom maybe separated from organisms in any other Kingdom by many hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years of evolution. This book provides information about the five kingdoms of life. It will give you knowledge on how organisms grouped and classified. You will also learn the different microorganisms that do exist on Earth. Let yourself explore the world deeper Let yourself know beyond what you see. Let yourself discover about the… Five Kingdoms of Life.. ------------------------------------------------- Once upon a time, all living things were lumped together into two kingdoms, namely plants and animals. Animals included every living thing that moved, ate, and grew to a certain size and stopped growing. Plants included...
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...The 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak was a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom. The only centre of the disease, in contrast to the three concentrated areas in the 2001 crisis, was on the Wales border with Shropshire.[1] France and other EU countries were also affected by the crisis.[ Background There were three official inquires into the foot-and-mouth epidemics and the Government’s response in the fifty years prior to the 1967 outbreak. These occurred in 1922, 1923-1924, and 1953.[2] In the 1950s, there was a substantial outbreak across the United Kingdom. Of the thirteen years leading up to the 1967 outbreak, there were only two years that there was no reported outbreak.[2] During this period, foot-and-mouth was prevalent across Europe. Outbreak In October 1967, a farmer from Bryn Farm in the county of Shropshire, concerned by the health of one of their sows, sought veterinary advice and the animal was found to have contracted foot-and-mouth disease. Bryn Farm was immediately put into quarantine and general animal movement was banned. The virus rapidly spread to the nearby Ellis Farm. Two cows from the latter had already been sent to market, leaving the farmers in a vulnerable position.[3] In the following months, over 2,364 outbreaks were detected in the United Kingdom.[4] Ninety-four percent of the cases occurred in North-West Midlands and North Wales.[2] Reports The Minister for Agriculture, Frederick Peart, appointed a committee...
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...fresh, safe and tasty food. Sainsbury’s is the second largest chain of supermarket in the United Kingdom with a share of the United Kingdom supermarket sector of 16.9%. Sainsbury’s became the largest grocery retailer in 1922. Sainsbury's main purpose: Sainsbury’s purpose is to provide a value for money, retail outlet for the general public. Also Sainsbury’s purpose is for them to deliver an improving quality shopping experience to their customers with great products at fair prices. Sainsbury's have a chain of 504 supermarkets and 319 convenience stores. Sainsbury's store also offers around 30,000 products. And their increasing number of stores also offers complementary non-food products and services. Sainsbury's is also currently in the tertiary and secondary sector, it because Sainsbury's provide services, they have banks, sell food they even have their own farm. Sainsbury's is a large business and it have about 161,000 employees working for the business in 2014, Sainsbury's operate in the United Kingdom. Types of ownership Sainsbury's is a public limited company (PLC), and has its shares bought and sold on the stock exchange. www.sainsbury's.ac.uk RSPCA Royal Society Prevention Cruelty Animals (RSPCA) The RSPCA began in 1824 as the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The RSPCA is also known as a registered charity...
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...Scientific Names and Classification (Writing Assignment) choose any species of animal that interests you. Find its complete scientific name and classification. Explain each level of the classification of this animal. If you choose this assignment please submit in the Assignment area for the Writing Assignment as a Word or PDF document. Please remember to include your full name on the assignment. The Animal I have chosen is a Chinese dwarf hamster, also known as Cricetulus griseus Phodopus scientifically. My daughter has one for a pet that is why I chose this animal. We will call this particular dwarf hamster BOO BOO. This nut and seed loving animals classifiacation are as follows, a wild type hamster (I agree) Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Rodentia, and finally Species Cricetulus griseus. I will explain the classifications which are only assigning BOO BOO to a family, order, class, phylum and kingdom. First BOO BOO belongs to the Animalia Kingdom, which means multicellular (multi- celled organism) and heterotrophic in which the organism… BOO BOO, use’s carbon compounds and food for growth and to reproduce. BOO BOO’s Phylum (next organism classification stage) is listed as Chordata for BOO BOO to fall into the Chordata there are four traits the anamail must have, the Pharyngeal slits opening inside the throat outside of neck in some this would be gills to others it would evolve to ears. The dorsal nerve cord is the main nerve that runs down...
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...Importance of Thermoacidophiles -The importance and impact that microbial activity has on the geology, geochemistry and ecology of hydrothermal vent ecosystems is now well-recognized. Given the recent discovery that the first cultured member of the deep-sea endemic archeael lineage, DHVE2, is a thermoacidophile, growing best at pH 4.5 and unable to grow above pH 6, the investigators in this project are poised to use this organism as a model organism to explore the ecology of thermoacidophiles at deep-sea vents. Importance of Methanogenium thermophilum -In four species of methanogens able to grow with secondary alcohols as hydrogen donors the expression and properties of secondary alcohol dehydrogenase (sec-ADH) were investigated. Cells grown with 2-propanol and CO2 immediately started to oxidize secondary alcohols to ketones if transferred to new media. Importance of Methanobacterium Thermoautotrophicum -The complete 1,751,377-bp sequence of the genome of the thermophilic archaeon Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum deltaH has been determined by a whole-genome shotgun sequencing approach. A total of 1,855 open reading frames (ORFs) have been identified that appear to encode polypeptides, 844 (46%) of which have been assigned putative functions based on their similarities to database sequences with assigned functions. Importance of Gram-positive - Gram-positive bacteria are so called because they take up the violet stain used in the Gram staining method. Gram-positive...
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...The Pittsburgh Zoo is a great place for anyone of all ages to enjoy. They opened the zoo in June 1898, therefore people could enjoy the many different species that the Pittsburgh Zoo provides. As well as, as the years went on they now have conservation projects, tons of info on all the different animals such as, how they survive in certain climates and environments wild vs. zoo. The zoo had many different species when they first open and now there is over one hundred species of animals from all over the world. The Pittsburgh Zoo has a variety of different exhibits for the different types of animals, such as The Tropical Forest, The African Savanna, The Asian Forest, The Kids Kingdom, The Water's Edge, The PPG Aquarium: Open Ocean, Coral Reefs,...
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...Scientific Taxonomy and Earth’s Biodiversity Axia College Introduction There are many forms of life that live on the Earth, which means the Earth is diverse. Most forms of life can be put into groups. Some groups would be the kingdom and the order. To be classified in a certain group, the species must consist of some of the same characteristics. All animals can be classified under the Animalia kingdom, which could also be called the Metazoa kingdom. In order to be classified in this kingdom the species must be multi-celled, eukaryotic, rely on other organisms for nourishment, some type of skeletal support, show levels of some type of organization, cells made for particular functions, ingest and digest food, and reproduce sexually. Research will be done on two mammals, two insects, two birds and two fish. This research will show just how diverse the Earth is. Mammals: Zebras and Rabbits Zebras and rabbits belong to the Animal Kingdom; however, they belong to different orders. The zebra belongs to the Perissodactyla order because they have hooves. Horses and donkeys belong to the same order as the zebra. The rabbit belongs to the lagomorpha order because they have long ears and they have four teeth on the upper jaw. Hares and pikas also belong to the same order as the rabbit. There are some similarities and differences in characteristics when it comes to the zebra and the rabbit. The two things they have in common would be that they both graze on grass...
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...Caribbean country Trinidad and Tobago. Walt and Roy Disney established the Disney Company in 1923 which was back then known as the Disney brothers cartoon studios (Barrier 2007). Stationed in Burbank, California the Disney Company has produced a global presence and positive image in the hearts of its targeted audience (Galber, 2006). The Disney brand’s global presence helps make it easy to establish itself conveniently in any part of the world. This gives it huge potential in thriving countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, India and etc. (Grover, 2004). With the Walt Disney Business, there are so many theme parks that have been produced under that company but the one that will be the most valuable to Trinidad and Tobago is Disney’s animal Kingdom theme park. I decided to go with this specific theme park to keep Trinidad and Tobago’s natural resources and this way I can bring a new experiences to the island. Economy Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest and one of the most developing countries in Latin America. It is listed in the top 66 high income countries in the world and had one of the highest GDP per capita of USD $20,300 in 2011(Coleman, 2011). Trinidad and Tobago has earned a reputation as an...
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