Throughout my experiment my control acted normally, the daphnia had average movement and calm manner. On a scale from 1 to 5 I ranked the control group as a 3 for normal movement and health. When I introduced car antifreeze to my pure water daphnia there was an immediate change in the color of the daphnia, their bodies turned from a white opaque color to a light pink (the same color as the antifreeze). Not only did the physical appearance change but their behavior became more aggressive and panicked. As time passed the daphnia moved in a circular motion and the chemical caused one of their antennas to cripple. The antifreeze surprisingly resulted in no deaths so I gave the effect of antifreeze to daphnia a 2 (table 2 and 2B). When exposed
This lab was conducted with the purpose of confirming the trait of homeostasis among goldfish. During the experiment, it was recorded that the fish would increase gill movement when placed in colder water two out of the three trials. However, the results showed no significant difference in gill movement in various temperatures of water. This has very little effect on the broad field of science since our only three trials were performed and may have included human error in the trials.
This article explains how fog is produced when dry ice and water react. One might think that the fog is made by water in the atmosphere but Kuntzleman questioned this common thought’s validity and explored dry-ice + water=fog at the molecular level. His first step was to accurately measure fog density by using the following equation: fog density= -log (I/I_0 ) with “I_0 being the intensity of incident light and I being the intensity of light that travels through the fog” (Kuntzleman, 644). This allowed Kuntzleman to determine at what point fog had been made.
Seeing as Daphnia are living organisms, it provided equal opportunity to act on these criteria. There were many actions I performed in order to this. I made sure I did not leave the Daphnia underneath the light for too long as it would kill them. I also reintroduced them into their existing environment. This not only took into consideration the wellbeing of the Daphnia but also their environment as well. Also I did not expose to too much caffeine as I did not want their hearts to stop nor did I want to drown them. Also while transporting them to various environments I took a good amount of care and used a pipette to contain them within their own natural
Another factor that may decrease the validity of the results is that the heart rate was only counted for 20 seconds at a time and then multiplied by 3 to calculate beats per minute. This was done for ethical reasons – so that the daphnia could be placed back in it’s natural habitat as quickly as possible. This could have devaluated the
Daphnia are normally used to test potentially harmful substances in water supplies, and are easy to handle and monitor. This experiment was designed around this fact,
I analyzed my Daphnia Magna everyday by observing if the Daphnia were alive or not at the end of each day. I did this by observing if the Daphnia had sunk to the bottom of the container and not moving at all for a long time. For Trial 1, SIXDAYSOX had 2 Daphnia alive while Gmark and Vitalsox only had one alive. For Trial 2, on Day 1 all the sock brands started out well and all four Daphnia survived. On Day 7 of Trial 2, Vitalsox had two Daphnia left while Gmark and SIXDAYSOX had only one alive.Also for Trial 2 one of the 4 control Daphia had died. For Trial 3, Gmark and SIXDAYSOX both had 4 Daphnia left while Vitalsox had three remaining. On Day 7 of Trial 3, Gmark had no Daphnia alive while SIXDAYSOX and Vitalsox both had one remaining.
It is Canadian natural instinct to “salt” the driveway every winter after it snows. A good example would be last year’s ice storms, in which salt was sold out everywhere. But how does salt work? Is it detrimental to the environment? And if so, how can we make our roads and sidewalks safe to commute on, while still being friendly to the environment?
In numerous countries it snows, snow can interfere with people’s life, children are unable to attend school and other people are unable to get to their jobs in certain cases when the snow is severe. For these specific reasons snow has to be melted, although there are other ways that they can get rid of snow but this investigation is focusing on melting the snow. De-icing or anti-acing is the process of removing snow, ice or frost from roads, airport runways or any other part needed. To de-ice salt is spread by snowplows or dump trucks, this salt will often be mixed with sand, another component that melts ice. Salt and sand are used as they are inexpensive and are available in large quantities.
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The real hypothesis states that the chemicals contained in the milkweed provoke a change impacting the heart of the Daphnia causing an increase of its heart rate. On the other hand, the null hypothesis asserts that the toxins of the milkweed would lessen the heart rate of the little invertebrate.
“Ice baths can be useful up to 48 hours after training or racing.” (Graham) Ice baths have been found to have the biggest effect following particularly damaging training sessions. So for example high intensity sessions, weights or plyometric sessions. Taking an ice bath post workout or that night will benefit you the most during recovery.
What are the implications of this research for hummingbirds and the people who love and feed them? The most alarming aspect of these studies is that many of the harmful effects were dose dependent: The larger the dosage of dye, the greater the effect. A hummingbird the size of a Black-chinned needs to drink about two and a half times its body weight in 4:1 sugar water
The data received from the experiment displayed a p-value of 0.001, which was smaller than 0.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected. In other words, the data showed that the metabolic rate of gold fish changed after increasing environmental temperature. The metabolic rate of gold fish was measured by the change in Oxygen concentration consumed by gold fish per unit of time per weight of fish, which was delta [O2]/(hour*kg). The result of this study was significant because it contributed to a previous gold fish study. According to a gold fish study conducted by F. E. J. Fry and J. S. Hart, the cruising speed of gold fish was related to water temperature. More specifically, Fry and Hart concluded that as water temperature increased, the cruising speed of gold fish also increased until when the temperature became lethal to the fish (41-degree Celsius). Relating to Fry and Hart’s finding, this study suggested that gold fish’s behavior related to water temperature in either one out of two possible ways (Figure 1a and 1b). In the first case, as water temperature increased, gold fish received heat or energy from the environment, resulting in
Fluoranthene is a one of the main PAHs that are studied and is an irritant. It is a 5-ring PAH and has a greater chronic carcinogenic effect than lighter 2-, 3-, or 4-ring PAHs. Phototoxic compounds utilize a photosensitizing process that produces reactive-oxygen species within the tissues of aquatic organisms. Since PAHs are hydrophobic, they tend to bioaccumulate in tissues to concentrations 100 to 100,000 times higher than their environmental water concentrations. These effects make many aquatic species vulnerable and since these harmful compounds are found ubiquitously in high concentrations, it will continue to be a substantial environmental and ecological concern. The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of early life-stage Litopenaeus setiferus (white shrimp) species to PAH photo-enhanced toxicity. The information forward will detail our experimental methods, data, results and conclusion regarding the behaviors and physiological effects of young shrimp exposed to oil and
When the dry ice and the water combined together the reaction to it was that it started to make fog and they it made a lot of bubbles. The dry ice contains carbon dioxide. The chemical component of dry ice is H20 and CO2. The temperature of the dry ice is -109.3 F or 78.5 C. The difference between the temperature dry ice and ice, is that the dry ice only contains carbon dioxide and the ice has salt.