Arthropod Essays

  • Essay On Arthropods

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    Arthropods have been on Earth for an incredible length of time, diverging from their annelid ancestor five hundred or six hundred million years ago (John R. Meyer). In their transition from an aquatic environment to a terrestrial environment they encountered many problems just as plants did. These problems were the effect of gravity, water conservation, accessibility to oxygen, reproduction and dispersal as well as establishing niches on land. Gravity posed as a problem to animals on land as the

  • Horseshoe Crabs Analysis

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    Have you ever taken a vaccine or medication? Well, the vaccine or medication that you took has most likely been tested by horseshoe crab blood that was drawn from horseshoe crabs. We should interact with horseshoe crabs even though they are a keystone species because we can use their benefits and also help them too. Some ways that we can preserve their species and simultaneously gain benefits is by flipping them over when they are stranded, chitin, and helping them rebuild their breeding habitats

  • Fiddler Beetle Research Paper

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    Specimen 1 (Ladybug) & 2 (unknown) belong to Coleoptera This is a general description of Coleoptera. Specific description of each specimen will follow. Beetles form this order Refer to picture (fiddler beetle) for general morphology. Mention head, thorax, abdomen, wings, elytra, and that beetles have an exoskeleton. No other order has more species = largest order About half of insect species are beetles (≈40%) Everywhere except for polar regions (mostly in vegetation but some marine habitats)

  • Arthropod Case Study

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    questionnaire containing seven questions was orally presented and the responses about students' preconceptions about arthropods were recorded and transcribed. Plasticine was offered to both visually impaired and non- visually impaired students so that they could represent arthropods according to their preconceptions. After that, they shared their models raising discussions about the anatomy of arthropods and their importance to the environment. Test kit ( 2D and 3D-didactic material) We presented the group Phylum

  • Jumping Spider Research Paper

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    Jumping spider are interesting because they move around by jumping around it is one of the most interesting spider in Kentucky. Jumping spiders habitat they mostly stay in temperate forest and tropical rain forest. The jumping spider is a small a spider it can grow to the size of a U.S dime or they can grow up to 13-20 millimeters.They aren 't harmful to humans they they rather run away from humans than attack them the venom is not medically threatening.They don 't have webs but there are fast runners

  • Consider The Lobster By David Foster Wallace Summary

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    Abiral Mainali Elliot Kaiser ENG 101-I3 10/11/2017 Lobster do feel pain The article Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace is an excellent article because the author is considering the pain of the lobster and he is trying to show the pain it experiences. Lots of festivals are held every year in which people celebrate by having lobster as main food. Lobsters are brought fresh and then are killed alive by keeping them in boiling water or in hot vessels. This has been a part of culture now. People

  • Pine Cone Analysis

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    After a giant pine cone fell on Sean Mace, 50, he filed a lawsuit for more than $5 million. While this lawsuit may sound ridiculous, the pine cone weighed more than 16 pounds, and caused a severe brain injury for the man. The pine cone fell from an Araucaria bidwillii, which is a tree that is native to Australia. This tree is better known as the false monkey puzzle tree. At their largest size, these pine cones can reach up to 16 inches in width, and they can weigh more than 40 pounds. As you can

  • Comparison Of Phylum Cnidaria And Jellyfishes

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    Crayfishes are part of the subphylum Crustacea, and are part of the Phylum Arthropoda. Phylum Arthropoda have a bilateral body symmetry which means the body is divided into similar external right and left halves. The tissue organization of Phylum Arthropoda have three tissue layers, ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm; thus it is triploblastic. The body cavity of the phylum is coelomate meaning its organs are lined with mesoderm. Phylum Arthropoda embryonic development is protostome which means that

  • Consider The Lobster Festival

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    Journal over Consider the Lobster In the essay “Consider the lobster” the author details the Main Lobster Festival. He goes through the excitement and joy the festival brings to some then goes thorough the other side of the argument for members of an organization like PETA. Though these viewpoints the author shows concern about the conscience of putting an animal in boiling water for the gratification of just eating. The purpose of this essay is to strike the reader into reevaluating the ethics

  • Peacock Spider Research Paper

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    The Peacock Spider is a very amazing arachnid. An amazing thing about the Peacock Spider is that it is very small and you could fit 10 of them of on your fingertip. Another amazing fact would be that the male spiders do a small dance to impress females. They also use this dance to warn off predators and to protect themselves. The most amazing fact about the Peacock Spider is that it a has a very colorful abdomen. It uses this in many ways. Two ways are defense and its attack. First, I will talk about

  • Lab Report For Brine Shrimp Experiment

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    Introduction Brine Shrimp are crustaceans which are distantly related to shrimp, crabs and lobsters. Brine shrimp live in salt water lakes because they can avoid predators; not a lot of aquatic life can survive in that condition. Brine shrimp have eleven pairs of legs used as gills. Their gills are used to help them breathe like lots of sea life, but these gills are also used to pump chloride ions, which take out the salt from their bodies and go into the water. You can tell the difference between

  • Arthropods Research Paper

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    About 85% of all animals on the planet are part of the scientific group called Arthropods. Some Arthropods are shrimp, crayfish, krill, barnacles, scorpions, spiders, insects, centipedes, mites, ticks, lobsters and crabs. You can tell that an animal is an arthropod because all arthropods have more than one body segment , a body segment is a body part like the abdomen like a whale for example a whale has one solid body that is not split into separate parts. This means that they have a body made

  • Isopod Lab Report

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    Introduction: Isopods are crustacean, which is split into smaller groups, called order. Scientifically Isopoda order is called isopods, which include pill bugs and sow bugs (Crustacean class). Most of the time isopods are mistaken for “bugs” since they look like insects. Even though they are closely related to crustaceans, their bodies are particularly similar to crab and other sea creature with shells. The isopods have three distinct regions such as the head, thorax and abdomen (CISEO). Their

  • Summary Of Consider The Lobster By David Foster Wallace

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    Aastha Rai Miss Matalone English 101 H1 October 19, 2017 Lobster Love “Consider the Lobster” is an article written by David Foster Wallace that appeared on the magazine Gourmet which provides thought provoking information about the morality behind consuming lobster. Wallace wants his readers to literally consider the lobster as he discusses about the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live creature with possible sentiment. By giving the example of a lobster, he tries to convey

  • Consider The Lobster By David Foster Wallace Summary

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    When I read this sentence in David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster”, I felt a distinctly physical sense of repulsion and empathy: “Lobsters don’t have much in the way of eyesight or hearing, but they do have an exquisite tactile sense, one facilitated by hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs that protrude through their carapace.” The phrase “exquisite tactile sense” is what really struck me, not because it’s a particularly special phrase in and of itself but because it was placed in the

  • Sypharochiton Pelliserpentis Research Paper

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    Sypharochiton pelliserpentis S. pelliserpentis has a dorsal shell that is made up of eight shell parts known as valves. These eight valves are bound together by a girdle which is strong and flexible and circles the valves. This particular species of chiton has its plate overlapping to resemble snake’s skin, thus, being colloquially referred to as the snakeskin chiton. The valves of S. pelliserpentis are very hard and allows the chiton to lay flat against a rocky surface. S. pelliserpentis has many

  • Analyzing The Essay 'Consider The Lobster' By David Foster Wallace

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    The essay I chose was “Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace published in August 2004. The purpose of the essay is to point out the consideration and suffering of the lobster and more specifically, he uses the Maine Lobster Festival as an example. His introduction begins with the background and culture of the MLB. He even goes in to detail about the paid attendance of the festival, all the festivities that are held. From carnival rides to a parade and he even stated the amount of fresh caught

  • Sea Wasp: Box Jellyfish Organism

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    The organism that I have chosen is the Sea Wasp, which is a species of Box Jellyfish (Cubozoa). The Sea Wasp is classified by eight different groups within its taxonomy, which are the: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. The Domain of this specific organism is Eukarya, the kingdom of the organism is Animalia, the phylum of the organism is Cnidaria, the class of the organism is the Cubozoa, the order of the organism is the Chirodropida, the family of the organism is

  • Consider The Lobster By David Foster Wallace Analysis

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    "Consider the Lobster," by David Foster Wallace explores the ethics of consuming animals and the disconnection that humans often have with the origins of their food. He analyzes this idea by telling the reader about the Maine Lobster Festival (MLF), an annual event held in Rockland, Maine, that celebrates the state's lobster industry and features a variety of activities and events. Wallace offers up the MLF as a prime example of the unethicality of lobster consumption as lobsters are sentient beings

  • Donald Barthelme's Short Story 'The School'

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    In Donald Barthelme’s 1974 short story “The School” revolves around a school that has many unfortunate events with trying to keep things alive. The narrator is a man by the name, Edgar, who is a teacher of thirty students. Edgar describes to the reader about catastrophes they have had with their class pets, projects and, family members. The story itself is broken into three parts, at the beginning of the story the scenarios are light-hearted and even funny. By the middle of the story, or the second