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What Is Ecology?
Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment; it seeks to understand the vital connections between plants and animals and the ...
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Mighty Mutualisms: The Nature of Plant-pollinator Interactions
For example, the mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and their animal pollinators (Figure ... yucca plants have a reciprocal obligate relationship- the plants cannot make seeds ...
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Mutualism: eight examples of species that work together to get ahead
A similar relationship occurs between tree shrews and another Bornean pitcher ... Corals may look like rocks or plants, but they are actually marine animals. The bright colours of reef-building corals ...
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Friends Forever: 10 Incredible Relationships Between Different Species That Help One Another Survive
Our planet is full of incredible animals, and new creatures are being discovered every year. The way that animals have adapted to survive is fascinating, with some developing close relationships ...
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Stem Cells in Plants and Animals
This observation is explained by another key feature of stem cells that is shared between plants and animals, as explained below. The ability of stem cells to constantly generate new tissues has ...
Plant and human immune systems are closer than we think, study finds
A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link ...
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Deciphering Plants’ Biochemical Messages
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Born in Kenya to teachers who farmed on the side to keep her in school, Esther Ngumbi has been fascinated by the relationships between plants, ...
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Food chains and webs
Food chains show the feeding relationships ... A consumer that only eats plants is called a herbivore. The frog is the secondary consumer. Because it only eats other animals, it's called a carnivore.
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Four ways Sir David Attenborough’s films can help with science learning
It can broaden our horizons by showing us far-flung places and highlight the complex relationships between plants and animals. Natural history programmes can also show the effects of climate ...
The yucca and the moth: How extreme weather impacts the timing of biological events
Whether it is flowers sprouting in the spring, cicadas mating in the blistering heat of summer, or caterpillars hatching to ...
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EPA Finds Glyphosate Is Likely to Injure or Kill 93% of Endangered Species
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation today finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals ... a disturbingly cozy ...