everything beyond it. Implies common ancestor. Rooted: common ancestor is identified Cladograms: branching diagrams showing evolutionary relationships Clade: group of organisms related by evolutionary history Sister taxa are related most closely ( 1 branch) Polytomy: unresolved phylogeny: 3 branch point In-group: group who’s relationship is of study Out-group: one or more taxa that are related to the in-group but diverged at an earlier time Best hypothesis is the simplest one. Paraphyletic group:
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“Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology‚” states digital analyst Brian Solis. Social media does not only provide people with its technology services but it also affects their social and psychological life. In the 21st century when people live in a digital and innovative period‚ easily share‚ create and exchange information in social media‚ they forget about its consequences. Social networks may negatively influence people especially teenagers while technology platforms
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Drawing on empirical examples‚ discuss the insights into the human world that the social constructionist perspective offers. Social constructionism focuses on meaning and power. It maintains that‚ as humans‚ we respond to the meaning of events and objects rather than the actual objects and events themselves. This meaning is actually a construction‚ a product of social interaction between individuals. Our behaviour is regulated by guidelines‚ which make everyday life predictable and understandable
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Outline for Life History Section 1: Introduction to Life Histories Name the ways that a population can increase its overall growth rate. 1) Reduction in age at first reproduction 2) Increase number of progeny at each reproductive event 3) Increase number of reproductive events (and longevity!) 4) Increase in birth rate (b) 5) Decrease in death rate (d) 6) Decrease in generation time (T) 7) Increase in net reproductive rates (R0) What is the connection between age
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Social networking sites like Myspace‚ Twitter and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years. With more than 60 million active Facebook users and an average of 250‚000 new registrations per day‚ it is evident that the world is turning to social networking. At the moment Australia is the fourth largest user of Facebook in the world and the phenomenon is only growing. Social networking is providing people of the world with an online community in which we can talk to our
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Zeivel‚ Gerald InfoTech116 Computer Hardware Technologies 6-23-2014 Chapter 16 Networking Types‚ Devices‚ and Cabling REVIEW 1. What type of network topology is used when five switches are used on a small LAN and each switch connects to multiple computers on a LAN? A. A star bus topology or a hybrid topology 2. Place the following networking technologies in the order of their highest speed‚ from slowest to fastest: WiMAX‚ Dial-up networking‚ Cable Internet‚ Fast Ethernet‚ and 3G
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* Ch. 16: Comprehensive Question 16-26 Evaluation of Internal Controls – Raw Materials and Supplies Inventory * Ch. 16: Comprehensive Question 16-29 Computer-Assisted Substantive Tests for Inventory ______________________________________________________________________________ Comprehensive Question 16-26 Evaluation of Internal Controls – Raw Materials and Supplies Inventory a. Identify the weaknesses in Jameson Company’s internal control procedures used for (1) Ingredients
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Major Themes: Darwin’s Postulate 1. Heritable variation – (genotype) models of 1-3 loci‚ usually 2 alleles‚ produce heritable phenotypes 2. Organisms engage in a struggle for existence – per capita growth rates from survival and reproduction 3. Heritable traits influence outcome of the struggle – variation affects the struggle; phenotypes (determined by genotypes) influence per capita growth rates 3 Big Questions Biologists seek to answer: 1. Diversity of life in time and space
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An understanding of the full depth and breadth of a child’s development is a prerequisite to effective work with children and youth‚ especially when the practitioner wants to concern himself with deviations from normal development’. (Maier‚ 1969) For this assignment the method of observation used was naturalistic observation‚ which is a method of observation used by psychologists‚ ‘they observe people in their normal environment’s’(Boyd‚ 2007) This type of observation is called naturalistic because
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Ecology and Control of the cassava mealybug (Phenacoccus manihoti) Abstract The cassava mealybug is an important pest which can cause a lot of damages to the cassava crop and lead vital problems for the African population. Some methods of control can be used to try to eradicate this pest like classical biological control‚ breeding resistant varieties or cultural control. However‚ the more efficient method to control the mealybug is the biological control with a natural enemy of the pest: a parasitoid
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