Earthworms: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...
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...
Moles are solitary creatures and do not hurt humans or other animals, but even though they are docile enough, they can destroy your lawn. Read more about mole biology here. Moles are a gardener or farmers worst nightmare. The tunnels they dig can destroy any and all the plant roots that...
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