A nice perspective shot on the size of sequoia trees in California. Joy is standing in the burned out section of this organism that has grown around the wound and continues to thrive.
Homework for tomorrow is below and please read the two chapters listed in your syllabus for lecture. There will be discussions on the topics.
Happy Reading,
Janine
AS405 –Day 7 Homework
1. Home canners pressure-cook vegetables as a precaution against what organisms? What are the variables that pressure-cooking eliminates from these organisms life cycle.
2. Why are the protists especially important to biologists investigating the evolution of eukaryotic life?
3. Why doesn’t the sexual life cycle of humans, which has haploid and diploid stages, qualify as an example of alternation of generations?
4. Why is the health of lichens an indicator of air quality?
5. What is athlete’s foot?
AS405 –Day 8 Homework
1. Give 5 basic differences between monocots and dicots.
2. Why are the leavevs of most plants green? Give details.
3. Why will a tree die if it is girdled? Use appropriate terms and systems.
4. How is water taken up a tree beyond 10.3 meters?
5. Describe symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
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