In binocular vision, an organism has two eyes which are aligned so that their field of vision overlaps in part. This causes a slight parallax difference between the field of vision of each eye in the area of overlap. The…
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There are five classes of jellyfish. The true jellyfish or Scyphozoa, also known as a medusa, is a hollow, transparent creature that looks like an inverted bowl or umbrella. There are also four other groups of ocean creatures which have…
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Invertebrates are animals without backbones. Most of the world’s animals are invertebrates but most of the big, obvious animals are vertebrates. Why? Because the vertebrate bone structure allows animals to attain much larger sizes than is possible in the invertebrates. …
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The cell is the basic unit of all life. For an organism to grow and reproduce, new cells must come into being. This happens through a process called cell division, wherein one cell becomes two or more cells. In prokaryotes,…
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Grasshoppers and locusts share many similarities, though they differ in terms of size, behavior and change of body color. Grasshoppers are found all over the world where there is plenty of grass or certain species of plants. They are, therefore,…
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The difference between algae and fungi is one of your basic questions in your life sciences classes in middle school. To just about anybody that can see, we can say that fungus are poisonous mushrooms that grow on your trees,…
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Understanding the difference between hemp and marijuana is often difficult. This isn’t because the concept itself is a hard one, but rather because it goes against what we have been taught. We have been taught about the evils of marijuana…
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To explain why gymnosperms are different than angiosperms, we need to describe each group first. Angiosperms are the largest group of plants in the plant kingdom. They are known as the flowering plants and consist of 250,000 species. The name…
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The differences between grasshoppers and locusts are subtle differences. The difference occurs every fifteen or twenty years when the area where they live experiences heavy rain. The heavy rain causes millions of eggs to hatch. This changes the balance of…
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If you’re reading this article, you probably already know that a covalent bond is a pair of valence-shell electrons shared between two atoms. (That’s co- for shared, and -valent for valence.) You may be aware that they come in two…
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