Earthworms are segmented annelids that live within the soil. They have simplified body systems that repeat within each segment and contain simple sensory ganglia cells as their nervous systems.Answer and Explanation: Earthworms benefit the soil by aerating it, fertilizing it, and digesting decaying ...
You find many earthworms living in your garden. Based on what you've learned about their soil activity, would you expect your plants to grow: a. Better. b. Worse. What is an important ecological job done by many fungi and bacteria that ensures plants have a source of inorgani...
Their diet consists mostly of earthworms, though they will eat larvae, grubs, slugs, and other small insects that burrow into the soil. Beetles make up a large portion of the mole diet in some areas. In order to keep its constant rate of energy up, a mole must eat its own body ...
Cities are thus home to novel community assemblages, including non-native organisms introduced by humans. Indeed, urban areas can be entry points for invasions, for instance for carabid beetles (Spence and Spence 1988) and earthworms (Hendrix et al. 2008). Introduced plants may be intentionally ...
ignoring all newly created interactional relations. It fails to acknowledge the widely accepted scientific understanding that genes can and do interact, not only amongst themselves in the genome, but also with other intracellular, intra-organismic, and environmental factors, and often do so in non-ad...
In recent years, new targets have been included between the health outcomes induced by pesticide exposure. The gastrointestinal tract is a key physical and biological barrier and it represents a primary site of exposure to toxic agents. Recently, the int