Bioprospecting Research Paper

Lactic acid fermentation: Plant and fungal cells produce alcohol as a result of fermentation and animal cells produce lactic acid

Earth’s vegetation and animal life are all part of an intricate “web” of essential relations in which both cannot survive without the other. According to Campbell’s Biology textbook, The transfer of food energy up the trophic levels is referred to as a food chain. This chain usually begins with plants, (primary producers), then herbivores, (primary consumers), to carnivores (secondary, tertiary and quaternary consumers), and finally decomposers. When one part of the chain is low in population, the species above it are likely to be negatively affected and will likely drop in population as well. In order to show how delicate this web is, and how human activity has affected this system, Carson describes a small food chain in which sagebrush

Like energy crops, BSFL have not been previously digested and thus may offer higher bio-methane potential than manures or biowastes. However, unlike energy crops, BSFL would not compete with food crops in agricultural land usage, and pose the associated environmental issues such as soil erosion and pesticide leakage to surface and ground water (EEA, 2006). Furthermore, BSFL have a high per-acre productivity, fast growth rate, and can be grown on non-arable land areas similar to algae. However, harvesting and valorization of algae biomass require significant water use and high capital and operation costs, which make it economically challenging (Mussgnug et al., 2010).

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The specific challenges of such a life to animals are food resources and healthy body. To survive, an animal has to ingest and digest foods in order to provide energy for daily activities. Moreover, on the quality aspect of animals’ life, animals have to live healthy without illness.

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is a key nutrient for plants and it is involved in a myriad of metabolic processes and functions that allow their growth and development. Since it is such an important nutrient its uptake, transport, storage and usage are tightly regulated. Never the less the reduced availability of Pi in the ground is a mayor limiting factor. When phosphate starvation occurs the plant has to adapt to survive. Such stress triggers a distinct phenotype in the root such as an increase in root hair length and density, as well as an increase in the ratio root/shoot and proliferation of lateral roots. The changes in root architecture are also accompanied by changes in metabolic processes such as photosynthesis, glycolysis, carbon fixation,

Biological Perspective is the relationship between the brain, hormones, heredity, and evolution, also the behavior and mental process. I feel that on both sides they are almost the same. When you talk about dreams that is kind of mental and what happens in the brain. The behavior of what you were doing before the on-set of dreams, fantasies and thoughts. Did you have a bad day or a lot on your mind or under a lot of stress. So I feel that both side are hand and hand.

Cellulase. Cellulase from Aspergillus niger (Cat: C1184, Sigma-Aldrich) was used in same concentration as pronase E i.e. 100 enzyme units (U) per 200 µl. The activity for cellulase was marked as 1.3 units/ mg solid and hence 1.92 grams of cellulase powder was added to 5 ml Tris (0.05 M, pH 7.4) to get desired stock solution concentration of 500 U/ml.

Learning outcome: Discuss how and why particular research method are used at the biological level of analysis.

The introduction of a scientific paper serves three key functions, to give relevant background information, state the purpose of the article, and define the hypothesis of the overall paper. In the scientific article Influence of Conspecific and Heterospecific Aggregation Cues and Alarm Odors on Shelter Choice by Syntopic Spiny Lobsters, these three functions were clearly demonstrated. Info-chemicals released by conspecific animals generally cause aggregation, while alarm cues may be used by other closely related species to avoid danger. Relevant information about Panulirus guttatus and P. argus lobsters such as the sociability and habitat shifts of P. argus as opposed to the relatively stable P. guttatus.

Australian scientists are working on a proof-of-concept that could change the world of surgery. A collaboration between a team of researchers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) and surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, resulted in a type of pen-shaped 3D printer that can repair and print new cartilage.

This week we are assigned career cluster 8 about health. All of the jobs in this cluster are connected because they all work in helping people and making our lives better. Doctors and nurses of all types help us in many ways, some in which can often times save our lives. Whether they are operating on our heart, studying to find a cure for cancer or helping save some unknown creature out in the wild, they all care and are working hard to make this world a better place.

In American English the plant is commonly known as a chili pepper or bell pepper. Sweet peppers are very often used as a bulking agent in cheap ready made meals/take-away food as they are cheap, have a strong flavour, and are colorful. The colorful aspect of peppers increases the visual appeal of the food, making it more appetizing. Capsaicin, a chemical found in chili peppers, creates a burning sensation once ingested which can last for several hours after ingestion. In British English, the sweet varieties are called red or green peppers, and the hot varieties chillies whereas in Australian and Indian English the name capsicum is commonly used for bell peppers exclusively and chilli is often used to encompass the hotter varieties.

Biodiversity presents occurrence of variety of species and their natural community in which they live. By the definition it is “The degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. It is a measure of the health of ecosystems and is in part a function of climate.” (Rutherford) Ecosystem is on the other hand, “ community and its abiotic environment”( Rutherford). Biodiversity exists in every ecosystem, weather it is big one, or just ecosystem of one garden, it has the same importance because without it nature loses its ability to perform major functions needed for life on Earth, as it is oxygen production. Trough this investigation, two different ecosystems will be explored and