A Deeper Inquiry Into Reproduction Life requires reproduction in order to ensure continuation of species; in fact, one of the key facets for defining life is reproduction (Pillars of Life). Throughout the evolution of living things, organisms have developed different strategies for producing offspring. These strategies can be partitioned into two main methods: asexual reproduction, and sexual reproduction. Current knowledge maintains that asexual reproduction came first. However, one may wonder
LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Biology of the Malaria parasite Malaria is caused by members of the genus Plasmodium, an apicomplexa which exhibits a heteroxenous life cycle involving a vertebrate host and an arthropod vector. Four distinct species infected humans: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariae (Krogstad, 2000). The P. falcipurum has 4 stages which mark the life cycle in the liver, blood and within the Anopheline mosquitoes. Sporozoites are injected with the saliva during mosquito feeding
The psychological aspects of being female or male are defined as gender. There have long been certain behavioral characteristics that pertain to men and women in society; these are defined as gender roles. Furthermore, humans go through a process of identifying behavioral characteristics that pertain to a culture, otherwise known as gender typing, and through this, develop a sense of being either female or male, known as someone’s gender identity. Gender roles and gender identity play a big role
Plant breeding started with agriculture particularly the domestication of the agriculture plants, a practice which is estimated to date back 9,000 to 11,000 years. Initially, early human farmers selected food plants with particular desirable characteristics and used these as a seed source for subsequent generations, resulting in an accumulation of characteristics over time. Farmer crops are cultivated for grain, forage, fiber, oil and other products that have commercial importance. The yield and
This is done from both the Gethenian perspective and Ai’s own. About the Gethenian one, the author has explained that it was one of her thought experiments – what would a society look like if the population was largely asexual? One of her conclusions, albeit one that stands on shaky ground, is that there would be no wars, with another being that the lack of sexual manipulation would lead to such a concept as shifgrethor, with its moral