Sunday 12 June 2016

A Powerful Referral Program



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Sunday 15 May 2016

BENEFITS OF ONION



 

   Onion is one of the food we eat daily. These are some of the benefits of  consuming onion daily.

Friday 8 April 2016

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYLUM NEMERTEA

Organisms in the phylum nemertea are also called RIBBON WORMS.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARASITES AND HOST

A parasite is a living organism which takes nourishment and other needs from a host.
A host is an organism which support the parasites.

Thursday 7 April 2016

TYPES OF LARVAE AND PUPAE



Insects are one of  the organisms that undergo metamorphosis either incomplete or complete. In incomplete metamorphosis insects change from the eggs to larvae to adult. In all insects undergo three major changes in incomplete metamorphosis. Complete metamorphosis is the other way round, in this insects undergo four major changes. They develop from egg to larvae to pupa to adult (imago).  In the larvae and pupa stage, there are some types depending on the nature and the physiology of the organism. Here are some basic types of  larva and pupa.

Monday 14 March 2016

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Photosynthesis: the jamming together of CO2 (carbon dioxide) with H2O (water) to make CH2O (sugar) and O2 (oxygen), using the sun's energy. The sugar contains the stored energy and serves as the raw material from which other compounds are made
Photosynthesis is the process used by plants, algae and certain bacteria to harness energy from sunlight into chemical energy

BASIC TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGY


This is for starters in the field of biology especially Entomology which is the study of insects.
Abdomen - The third (hind) body region. It is composed of as many as 11 segments and
lacking legs or wings.
Antenna (pl., antennae) - A segmented organ located on the head, usually used for smell.
Cell - An area in a wing between veins.
Cercus (pl., cerci) - A thread-like or sometimes forceps-like tail near the tip of the abdomen (usually a pair).
Complete metamorphosis - A type of insect development in which the insect passes
through the stages of egg, larva, pupa and adult. The larva usually is different in form
from the adult.
Compound eye - An eye with many individual elements or facets.

Sunday 14 February 2016

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PHYLUM MOLLUSCA


The name mollusca comes from the Latin word mollusc meaning soft. They are invertebrates with about 110,000 living species. Most are marine but there are few freshwater and terrestrial mollusk. They possess a visceral mass which contains the internal organs, a mantle which is a covering that lies to either side of but does not completely enclose the visceral mass. It also possess a foot which is a muscular organ that may be adapted for locomotion, attachment, food capture or a combination of functions. Another  feature is the radula, an organ that bears many rows of teeth and is used to obtain food. There is a  nervous system consisted of ganglia connected by nerve cords. The coelom is reduced and is largely limited to the region around the heart. Most mollusks have an open circulatory system. Some mollusks are slow moving and have no head, many others undergo marked cephalizatoion.

MYCORRHIZA



DISCOVERY:
Associations of fungi with the roots of plants have been known since at least the mid-19th century. However early observers simply recorded the fact without investigating the relationships between the two organisms. This symbiosis was studied and described by Franciszek Kamieoski in 1879–1882. Further research was
carried out by Albert Bernhard Frank, who introduced the term mycorrhiza in 1885.

 DEFINITION:
Mycorrhizas are symbiotic relationships between fungi and plant roots (the term means literally 'fungus
root'). Perhaps more than 80% of the species of higher plants have these relationships, and so do many
pteridophytes (ferns and their allies) and some mosses (especially liverworts). They are as common on crop plants (cereals, peas, tomatoes, onions, apples, strawberry, etc) as in wild plant communities, and in severa
l cases they have been shown to be important or even essential for plant performance.


PLANT TISSUES



They are the tissues that are responsible for the chemical reactions and metabolisms undertaken by a plant. They are divided into different groups depending their function and origin. Plant tissues are broadly categorized into three 1. Epidermis 2. Vascular 3. Ground tissues.

Epidermis - Cells forming the outer surface of the leaves and of the young plant body.

Vascular tissue - The primary components of vascular tissue are the xylem and phloem. These transport fluid and nutrients internally.

Ground tissue - Ground tissue is less differentiated than other tissues. Ground tissue manufactures nutrients by photosynthesis and stores reserve nutrients.
Plant tissues are further divided into 1. Meristematic tissues and 2. Permanent tissues.

Saturday 13 February 2016

CELL PHYSIOLOGY



Cell physiology (including cellular electrophysiology) is the biological study of the cell's mechanism and interaction in its environment. The term "physiology" refers to all the normal functions that take place in a living organism. Absorption of water by roots, production of food in the leaves, and growth of shoots towards light are examples of plant physiology.  The heterotrophic metabolism of food derived from plants and animals and the use of movement to obtain nutrients (even if the organism itself remains in a relatively stationary position) are characteristic of animal physiology. These are the parts of cell and their functions.

Monday 8 February 2016

ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS




They are also known as artificial ecosystems or man made ecosystems.

DEFINITION
They are environment or ecosystem produced, controlled and manipulated by man or human beings. Artificial environments are environments which rely on human efforts to sustain.They don’t have self regulating mechanisms.



  They have almost no diversity and have simple food webs. The cycling of nutrients is negligible. Inputs in these environments or ecosystems are provided by human efforts.

THE HARDY-WEINBERG EQUATION


INTRODUCTION

Godfrey Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg are credited with independently generating the mathematical
HARDY
relationship behind the Hardy-Weinberg principle in 1908. The principle
describes how genetic alleles will be inherited from generation to generation and was the foundation to the study of population genetics. Diploid organisms, all animals and many plants, have two copies of an allele, one from each parent. The Hardy-Weinberg principle calculates the proportion of the population with a given combination of alleles, or genotype.
WEINBERG


THE HISTORY OF VIRUSES

The name virus was coined from the Latin word meaning slimy liquid or poison. It was originally used to describe any infectious agent, including the agent of tobacco mosaic disease, tobacco mosaic virus. In the early years of discovery, viruses were referred to as filterable agents. Only later was the term virus restricted to filterable agents that require a living host for propagation. The history of viruses dates back as far as 2300 BC. These are the major discoveries in the history of viruses in the 18th and the 21st century.