Angiosperms are a group of plants that have flowers and produce seeds enclosed within a carpel. This category includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, grasses, and most trees. Angiosperms adapt to their environment over time. The fact that angiosperms can pollinate, reproduce asexually, and disperse their seeds helped them to survive on the continent of Australia. Pollination … Read more
There are dominant and nondominant species in every ecosystem. The dominant species are those that have the greatest impact on the ecosystem, while nondominant species play a more minor role. The concept of species is critical to understanding biology. A species is a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. This definition … Read more
The word bionic is a combination of two words biology and electronic. Bionics is the field of science that brings together engineering, biology, and medicine to replace parts of the body. There a three types of medical bionic devices, one that sends signals from the brain to the body, one that sends signals from the … Read more
A central organizing concept in biology is that life changes and develops through evolution, and that all life-forms known have a common origin. The theory of evolution postulates that all organisms on the Earth, both living and extinct, have descended from a common ancestor or an ancestral gene pool. This last universal common ancestor of … Read more
Evolution is basically the change in the heritable characteristic or traits in living organisms which are passed from one generation to another and gives rise to diversity at every stage of the organism’s biological organisation. The process of evolution was not well understood until 19th century when Charles Darwin proposed the scientific theory of natural … Read more
The relationship between predators and their prey is an intricate and complicated relationship; covering a great area of scientific knowledge. This paper will examine the different relationships between predator and prey; focusing on the symbiotic relations between organisms, the wide range of defense mechanisms that are utilized by various examples of prey, and the influence … Read more