Algae are the world’s solar panels. Although they harness less than half as much energy from the sun as solar panels, life would be hard pressed to continue without them. Algae, the base foundation for waterborne food chains, use photosynthesis…
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Living without clean air, water, and food is not natural. Therefore, we are still dependent upon, and part of, nature. Anyone who does not believe they are part of nature needs to show we don’t need these things, and more. …
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Recently, the news media rushed to report on a NASA press conference that too many people yawned over. For the implications of what NASA discovered is monumental and will certainly change some of the science textbooks as well as the…
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Bacteriology is the study of bacteria, how it causes disease, how it help the body, and how to use the knowledge to better humanity. The study of bacteria has come a long way since these microorganisms were first discovered in…
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Heliozoans are amoeboid protozoans. That is, they are single-celled organisms that move by the flow of their cytoplasm rather than by using oar-like cilia or whip-like flagellae. Heliozoa means sun-animals and they do resemble tiny suns for they are round…
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Fungi are something that few people notice, except for the occasional mushroom. Yet fungi are quite literally everywhere, but especially in soils. Soil is also something that most people don’t notice. It is something under the ground, under the grass…
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Dermoptera means ‘skin-wing’ and this order of mammals have modified their bodies towards flight, although it isn’t true flight but rather gliding. They have done this independently from the bats who are the only mammals to have attained true flight,…
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The human race is doomed to extinction for a lot of reasons but our inability to learn from our mistakes is at the top of the list. The phrase: History repeats itself, is more true than we often realize and…
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The first person to see a bacteria was probably van Leeuwenhoek, who made the first microscopes in the late 17th century. His single lens microscope magnified an amazing 300x, enough to see bacteria as well as protozoa in pond water….
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Many single-celled animals live free in the water but others have a stalk and attach themselves to substrates. The ciliated protozoa that are classified as suctoria are specialised, stalked ciliates. The basic shape is an inverted bell for a body that…
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