Some of the most bizarre and fascinating plants in the natural world are undoubtedly carnivorous plants. Carnivory‚ defined as the consumption of animal tissue‚ is often only associated with the animal kingdom. However the existence of carnivory is widespread and diverse in the plant and fungi kingdoms as well. Specifically carnivorous plants‚ which originally descended from exclusively photosynthetic plants‚ have evolved elaborate‚ efficient‚ and diverse methods to capture‚ digest‚ and metabolize
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may become “trap happy” and return to the trans as they offer shelter and food. The data in table 1 shows six individuals out of seventeen new animals returned to the traps on three separate occasions as well as one returning once. This could be indicative of trap happiness as a high proportion of the total caught population returned once or more. As the traps were provisioned after each trapping session coupled with good handling practice may encourage individuals to return to the traps. Table 3 shows
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Controlled Assessment – Curley’s Wife Women in 1930s America were treated as ‘2nd class’ to the men. They were in charge of household duties‚ especially when the men went to war. Women did not have the rights the men had‚ such as: voting and working. A traditional 1930 American woman would usually be owned by their father and passed on to their husband when married. This relates to Curley’s wife because she had no name throughout the novel. This name ‘Curley’s Wife ‘suggest that she was Curley’s
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atmosphere that traps heat‚ making it the hottest planet in the solar system. Much of its surface is marked with volcanoes and deep canyons‚ the biggest of which is 4‚000 miles long. Only two spacecraft have ever penetrated Venus’s thick atmosphere. And it’s not just spacecraft that have trouble getting through the atmosphere; there are fewer crater impacts on Venus than other planets‚ because all but the largest meteors can’t make it through the thick air. Venus is not a nice place to visit with
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Bottom Billion” he addresses the reasons why particular countries like Haiti‚ Bolivia‚ Cambodia‚ North Korea‚ and Africa are currently in poverty. Collier’s believes there are four traps that people little attention to‚ “the conflict trap‚ the natural resources trap‚ the trap of being landlocked with bad neighbors‚ and the trap of a bad governance in a small country.” (Collier 5) He also stresses since 1980 world poverty is falling for the first time in history (Collier x) and the bottom countries are
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to the Patriot trap‚ the McCool independence trap did not appear to produce a measurable amount of carbon dioxide. It is Mr. Kaltofen’s opinion that this trap remains essentially untested‚ because the test did not provide evidence that this trap was properly functional at the time of testing or at the time of the incident. Mr. Kaltofen bases his opinion in the following facts: The McCool trap was tested using the McCool propane tank‚ and the burn test run for 43 minutes. The trap warmed up at the
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Linda Brent to narrate her story in a first person point of view. Linda Brent was the literary representation of Harriet Jacobs and the events that were told were events that Jacobs experienced. Linda Brent was born into slavery but had a relatively nice childhood. It wasn’t until after the death of her mother’s mistress that her real struggles as a slave began. She
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Reflection: “Mary Had a Little Ham”/ “The Snow Queen” “Mary Had a Little Ham” is the story of a barnyard pig that wants to be a Broadway star and eventually brings his dream to realization‚ thanks to a little girl at the barn named Mary who believes in him. He sings a lot about how he wants to leave his home‚ and “get out of the slop.” His two pig siblings doubt him and mock him until he is successful‚ then they suddenly love him. It reminded me of Rudolph’s “other reindeer”. Throughout the play
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Trapping has been used for thousands of years‚ dating back eight-thousand years in Egypt. It is an ancient and mutually beneficial practice. Traps are used by professionals as their livelihood‚ by others to control their animals populations‚ and by conservationists to study and protect the native animals. Trapping can appear inhuman‚ and unnecessary to those who don’t know anything about the process‚ however‚ trapping is a necessity that has many implications to benefit the world we live in today
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Egocentrism Egocentrism is the tendency to see reality as centered on oneself. Egocentrics are selfish‚ self-absorbed people who view their interests‚ ideas‚ and values as superior to everyone else’s. All of us are affected to some degree by egocentric biases. One cannot think clearly about what one is wrapped up in. —Holmes Rolston Egocentrism can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Two common forms are self-interested thinking and self-serving bias. Self-interested thinking is the
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