The Totonac people‚ who inhabit the Mazatlan Valley on the Gulf Coast of Mexico in the present-day state of Veracruz‚ were the first to cultivate vanilla. According to Totonac mythology‚ the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat‚ forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal‚ fled to the forest with her lover. The lovers were captured and beheaded. Where their blood touched the ground‚ the vine of the tropical orchid grew.[3] Drawing of Vanilla from the Florentine Codex (circa 1580)
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relatives of the wasps and ants. They are found on every continent on earth‚ except for Antarctica because it is so cold there. Bees of all varieties live on nectar and pollen. Without bees‚ pollination would be difficult and time consuming. One-third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination. Bees have a long‚ straw-like tongue called a probiscus that allows them to drink the nectar from deep within blossoms. Worker bees are the most familiar-looking member of the honeybee hive‚ as
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Their doings affect our daily lives. They directly help us through pollination of our food crops. Many of the foods we eat are thanks to Honeybees. In fact‚ “About one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants and honey bees are responsible for 80 percent of this pollination” (“Honey Bees and Pollination”). Honeybees able us to eat a variety of foods from nuts to fruits. Peaches‚ strawberries‚ onions‚ broccoli‚ and kidney
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Biodiversity Paper BIO/280 March 4‚ 2013 Shameema Sarker Conservation biology is a scientific discipline that devotes its focus to maintaining and conserving the structural biological
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In my opinion‚ the killer bee was created by scientists in brazil to help decrease the population of humans. From the moment they were created‚ killer bees induced around one thousand deaths every year..After escaping the lab the killer bee began taking over mexican and american honey bee hives. Our descendants of southern african bees brought to america by brazilian scientist trying to breed a regular honey bee to an african bee and created the one and only Killer Bee. Killer bees have been in the
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228-237. 2 3. Bohlmann J.‚ G. Meyer-Gauen‚ R. Croteau. 1998. Plant terpenoid synthases: Molecular biology and phylogenetic analysis. National Academy of Sciences. 95:4126-4133. 4. Borg-Karlson‚ A.K.‚ 1990. Chemical and ethological studies of pollination in the genus Ophrys (Orchidaceae). Phytochemistry. 29:1359-1387. 5 6. Dobson‚ H.E.M and G.Bergstrom. 2000. The ecology and evolution of pollen odors. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 222: 63-87. 7 8. Gounaris‚ Y. 2010. Biotechnology for the
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immunodeficiency‚ mites‚ and fungus. Though no one has been able to prove a single cause of the Colony Collapse‚ scientists have made some strong theories. 6) Affecting humans The bees are very important to our daily life‚ as they do so much for us. Bee pollination is responsible for more than $15 billion in crop value each year. Besides economically‚ the bees also influence what we eat. One third of all the food that we
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’Genetically modified Products: Harmful or Helpful? Genetic‚ modification in products is not a new concept‚ for many years‚ scientist have been doing research in this field‚ consequently there have been a lot of discussion on whether genetic modification of a product is bad or good. Genetic modification was limited to mixing traits of organisms only within the same family of species‚ but due to advanced biotechnology‚ scientist can now genetically modify different species. Genetically engineered
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trees. Within the grown farms‚ however‚ the crop is supported along with powerful trellis. The vine bears tiny white color monoecious (male and female) flowers. Generally‚ pollination is completed by honeybees (Apis mellifera). Chayote pears will certainly mature and prepared for harvest right after about Thirty days of pollination. Every plant may possibly yield as much as 150 fruits in the season. The fruit features thin‚ pale green color skin and many short vertical furrows on the surface. Specific
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taluka of Valsad district in the state of Gujarat. The work may seem to be a small term study but in reality it could be a stepping stone for larger benefits in terms of awareness‚ knowledge‚ documentation‚ orientation and implications as far as pollination and crop productivity are concerned. I first would like to thank the field investigators of the
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