are the leading suspected cause of frog mutation and decline in their population. There are many smaller factors that go hand in hand with one another are caused specifically because of our actions‚ even though they do not directly cause these results they help speed up the process. As a first thought most people‚ as I did‚ would point out that the sole cause of this issue was the chemicals. In addition to the direct effects of chemical contaminations on frogs‚ human activities are to blame for
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The relict leopard frog is a species of frog that has been proposed to be on the endangered species list. The leopard frog’s scientific name is lithobates onca. It was originally a member of the genus Rana‚ but in 2008 it was removed and inserted into the Lithobates genus. This species is part of the Ranidae family. The typical frog is 4.48 centimeters in length. The top of the frog is usually a mixture of brown and grey with greenish brown spots on the front side of the body. The colors under the
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Charles Ray’s “Boy with Frog” is a painted white stainless steel sculpture standing eight feet tall in a back gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago‚ depicting just what the title suggests. The tallest in a large room with only four other pieces‚ it demands attention. Upon closer inspection the detail in the frog dangling from the boy’s right hand is striking. The warts covering the animal contrast the smoothness of the boy’s naked body but the white paint unifies them as a whole. The boy used for
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The two fairy tales‚ the princess and the frog and Cinderella‚ have more similarities than expected. They both have princesses that didn’t start out as princesses. The villains in the two stories both try to stop the prince and princess from finding their true loves‚ but in the end it doesn’t work out in their favor. In the princess and the frog‚ Prince Naveen comes to the town where Tiana lives. He is looking for a bride so he can have all of his family’s riches. A man who messes with
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Lab 6 Biomechanics of Frog Skeletal Muscle I. Purpose This exercise is designed to demonstrate some mechanical and physiological properties of skeletal muscle using the gastrocnemius muscle of a frog. II. Performance Objectives At the end of this exercise the student should be able to: 1. Define minimal (threshold)‚ subminimal‚ maximal‚ and supramaximal stimulus. 2. Explain what is meant by a “graded” response. 3. Draw a diagram of the setup used in this lab exercise. 4. Calculate the
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species to Florida. The Osteopilus Septentrionalis‚ also known as the Cuban Tree frog‚ is native to Cuba and has become an amazingly invasive species to the United States‚ within the last hundred years. It is believed to have come from Cuba as a stowaway in shipping crates from the Caribbean coming to the Florida Keys. During the early and mid twentieth century up until the mid to late nineteen seventies‚ the Cuban Tree frog seemed to be of no harm to American soil. However‚ throughout the
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Dyeing Poison Frog The Dendrobates tinctorius‚ also known as the dyeing poison frog was first discovered in 1797 by G. Cuvier. The Scientific classification of this amphibian is: Kingdom-Animalia‚ Phylum- Chordata‚ Class- Amphibia‚ Order-Anura‚ Family- Dendrobatidae‚ Genus- Dendrobates‚ Species- D. tinctorius. These are large poison frogs ranging from 40 to 50 mm and some females can reach to 60 mm. The dyeing poison frog is a bright blue frog with two broad yellow stripes on the back. The
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Through "Hop-Frog‚" one can get a feel for who Edgar Allan Poe is. He encompasses the ideas of Romanticism throughout his entire work and makes sure that the reader is able to see it. He also uses his life and the experiences that he has endured in order to write his literary works. His childhood was not the best kind‚ and through "Hop-Frog‚" one can see this. He also writes with a similarity. He is a Dark Romanticist and his writing reflects this. When reading and comparing works done by Poe‚ the
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2015 Literary Analysis “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a short story in which Mark Twain‚ the author‚ tells an unrealistic story of a frog and a chatty man by the name of Simon Wheeler. Simon Wheeler‚ Mark’s main character‚ wins bets on whatever he can from dog fights to frog jumping. Later‚ when Simon meets an old gentleman and bets him that Dan’l can jump the farthest of any frog in Calaveras County. Written in the mid 1860’s
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time a frog croaked in Bingle Bog all the night beginning from dusk to dawn. All the creatures hated his loud and unpleasant voice but still they did not have any other option. The voice came out from the sumac tree where every night the frog sang till morning. He was so determined and also shameless that neither stones‚ prayers or sticks nor the insults or complaints could divert him from singing. One night‚ a nightingale started casting her melody in the moonlight to which both the frog and the
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