315 résultats pour "reproduction"

• Blue Whale - biology.

  Mature females may give birth once every two or three years. The gestation period lasts about 11 months. A single young is usually born the following spring; twins arerare. The females migrate to warm regions to give birth. The young nurse for seven or eight months, gaining as much as 90 kg (200 lb) per day. VII CONSERVATION STATUS Blue whales were not targeted by the whaling industry until the late 1800s after faster steam-powered ships were developed. The peak slaughter of blue whalesoccurre...

• abeille.

  Les ouvrières sont élevées dans des alvéoles beaucoup plus petites, disposées horizontalement. Les futures ouvrières ne reçoivent de la gelée royale que pendant les deuxpremiers jours de leur développement. Cette différence dans l’alimentation pendant la période larvaire est à l’origine des différences anatomiques et fonctionnelles entrereines et ouvrières. Le développement de la reine, de l’œuf à l’adulte, demande 16 jours, celui des ouvrières 21 jours, et celui des mâles 24. 4 ACTIVITÉS La re...

• Comparative Anatomy.

  In comparing two species, anatomists have to be careful to differentiate between homologous structures, which are ones that have evolved from a shared ancestor, andanalogous structures, which have developed from different origins. Homologous structures are built on the same underlying plan. A human arm, a bat’s wing, and awhale’s flipper look quite different from the outside, but the bones inside reveal that these limbs all have the same basic structure. Analogous structures, by contrast,often l...

• Malaria.

  last long and is unlikely to be fatal. Infants and children are especially vulnerable to malaria because they have not yet built up immunity to the parasite. Some peoplehave genetic traits that help them resist malaria. Sickle-cell anemia and thalassemia, for example, are inherited blood disorders linked to malaria resistance. Travelers who lack immunity to malaria should take precautionary measures when visiting areas where the disease is prevalent. Such measures include using insectrepellents,...

• La Diffusion Du Livre Au Moyen Age

  accable de sarcasmes. Jean Gerson* (1363-1429) maître de l'université, chancelier, a écrit un nombre d'œuvres trèsimportant, notamment un traité De Laude Scriporum*, il incite des moines à s'adonner à la copie des bons ouvrages.Il dit que les copistes ne sont que des dessinateurs en reproduisant les caractères sans comprendre et de lamauvaise manière. -Le commerce d'occasion Ce qui accélère la diffusion des livres est le fait qu'ils sont mis sur lecommerce et passent de main en main ain...

• Le meilleur des monde et Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne: Utopie et contre-utopie

  Les divers aspect présents dans le meilleur des mondes sont interdépendants. L'organisation est entièrementcirculaire, d'une logique de cercle vicieux. Ce raisonnement produit un modèle social dont tous les éléments setiennent si bien, que la modification ou la suppression du moindre d'entre eux, menace l'édifice dans son entièreté.Nous sommes en face d'une cohérence absolue, qui donne un système clos et inapte à l'évolution. L'utopie s'énonce comme le Paradis sur terre. Reste à sa...

• Owl - biology.

  Among the largest species of typical owls are the eagle owls. They have tufts of feathers on their heads that are called “ears.” The great horned owl is the only eagleowl found in the Americas. It is about 60 cm (25 in) in length with a wingspan of 1.4 m (60 in). Numerous species of eagle owls inhabit Europe, Africa, and Asia. Mostwidely distributed is the northern eagle owl, found from Scandinavia and Spain to Japan. It is about 71 cm (28 in) long with a wingspan of about 2m (72 in). Nearly asl...

• Rock Music I INTRODUCTION Carlos Santana Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana became a superstar in the late 1960s with a string of hits and an appearance at the famous Woodstock rock festival in 1969.

  point (a single pitch sustained through a progression of chords), and the parallel movement of chords, derived from a technique on the electric guitar known as bar-chording. Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influence on rock music. These characteristics include riffs (repeated patterns), backbeats (emphasizing the second and fourth beats of each measure; see Musical Rhythm: Pulse and Meter ), call-and-response patterns, blue notes (the use of certain...

• Classification - biology.

  species based on the fewest number of shared changes that have occurred from generation to generation. IV HISTORY OF CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS Classification is one of the oldest sciences, but despite its age it is still a vigorous field full of new discoveries and methods. Much like other fields of science, greatthinkers have shaped the course of classification. One of the earliest classification schemes was established by Greek philosopher Aristotle, who lived in the 300s BC. Aristotle believe...

• Honey Bee - biology.

  B Reproduction and Development The queen controls the sex of her offspring. When an egg passes from her ovary to her oviduct, the queen determines whether the egg is fertilized with sperm from thespermatheca. A fertilized egg develops into a female honey bee, either worker or queen, and an unfertilized egg becomes a male honey bee, or drone. The queen lays the eggs that will develop into more queens in specially constructed downward-pointing, peanut-shaped cells, in which the egg adheres to the...

• Les plantes sont les formes les plus élaborées de la vie végétale.

  méristème primaire. À un ou deux centimètres de l'extrémité, les cellules superficielles se prolongent à l'extérieur en un long poil absorbant. Plus haut, les poils absorbants vieillis se flétrissent et se détachent. Le corps de la racine comprend l'écorce avec plusieurs épaisseurs de cellules, puis, séparé de l'écorce par l'endoderme, le cylindre central où se différencient les cellules conductrices. Xylème et phloème primaires sont disposés en massifs alternant le long de l'endoderme. Les mass...

• Tiger - biology.

  have a simple digestive system designed to process meat so that the nutrients can be readily absorbed into the bloodstream. With the exception of white tigers, which have blue eyes, all tigers have yellow eyes. Tigers mainly use vision to find prey. Although tigers see about as well as humansduring the day, their large eye openings gather more light than do human eyes, making tiger night vision far superior to that of humans. In addition, a special structurein the tiger’s eye, called the tapetu...

• Bird. I INTRODUCTION Bird, animal with feathers and wings. Birds are the only

  B Physical Adaptations for Flight The internal body parts of all birds, including flightless ones, reflect the evolution of birds as flying creatures. Birds have lightweight skeletons in which many of themajor bones are hollow. A unique feature of birds is the furculum, or wishbone, which is comparable to the collarbones of humans, although in birds the left and rightportions are fused together. The furculum absorbs the shock of wing motion and acts as a spring to help birds breathe while they...

• Bird - biology.

  B Physical Adaptations for Flight The internal body parts of all birds, including flightless ones, reflect the evolution of birds as flying creatures. Birds have lightweight skeletons in which many of themajor bones are hollow. A unique feature of birds is the furculum, or wishbone, which is comparable to the collarbones of humans, although in birds the left and rightportions are fused together. The furculum absorbs the shock of wing motion and acts as a spring to help birds breathe while they...

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