What are life-history strategies and how do they vary across livingorganisms? What environmental factors influence the evolution of life-history strategies?Provide examples that represent K-selected species and r-selected species. How can life-history strategies help ecologists predict population growth patterns?
Compare how a Western diet vs. a Mediterranean diet affects your gutmicrobiome composition. Explain how this can impact your mental health, metabolism, and muscular health using evidence from the papers you read in the group discussion about this topic. Be sure to explain the relevant physiology associated with your examples.
Compared to our closest living ancestor, the chimpanzee, humans haveskeletal and muscular adaptations for bipedal movement. List a few of these and explain how they are essential to bipedalism. You learned that there is additional evidence that we evolved for endurance running; explain why V02 max is significant to this type of exercise. There is …
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Plants, which evolved from an algae ancestor who was obligately aquatic,consist of clades (mosses, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms) that are increasingly well adapted to the challenges of life on land. Provide examples of the progression, explaining how traits increased fitness for plants that possessed them. How might some of these traits lead to diversification over …
Contrast the flower characteristics that attract bats, hummingbirds, andbees. What features of their sensory system are responsible for these patterns? Explain how coevolution is responsible for the evolution of flower complexity. What kind of evidence is needed to support a hypothesis that coevolution is happening and driving the evolution of a specific trait such as …
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Explain how variation in pharyngeal jaws and sexual selection can lead tosympatric speciation in cichlid fish living in Lake Victoria. Be sure to discuss how variation in light and food availability is important to the speciation process in this diverse group of animals.
What are homeobox genes? How do patterns in the evolution of thesegenes show shared ancestry among all animals? How do the patterns showdivergence? Describe a hypothetical example of how variation in homeobox genes controlling mouthparts in insects might affect ecological opportunity, and competition, and ultimately lead to the evolution of a reproductive barrier (e.g. habitat …
Option #1: Water Quality PaperIn this laboratory exercise, you will learn about water pollution and how specific water-quality indicators impact both human health and the environment. You will also test water samples for the following parameters: pH, nitrates, phosphates, and fecal coliform bacteria.Complete all sections of the Water Quality laboratory exercise, in your Environmental Science …
Write an analysis focusing on the article from an ecosystem perspective while incorporating the other article’s information as well. It is to be 500-1000 words APA also including an abstract. Include the significance of the specific topic ( first article) and why it is an exciting barrier in encountering recent information. Immediate or long-term impact …
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I. Course Info: CRN: 23141 M: 3:30 AM – 5:10 PM PSC 138II. Course Content & Goals:Credit: 2 hoursPrerequisites: BIOL 2107KDescription: This course is a survey of research methodology with an emphasis on the projects’ specifichypotheses and aims, methodology, and the analyses of possible outcomes. Discussions will includeapplications and limitations of current techniques in biological …
