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Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 4/10/20 In this week’s lab, we analyzed the biodiversity of Brock Smith’s and Tyron Arnett’s backyards. Biodiversity is very important element of ecosystem stability. Simply put biodiversity is the variety of life that is present within a particular ecosystem. For this lab, we focused on the biodiversity of the plants inContinue reading “Backyard Species Diversity”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 4-5-20 In this week’s lab, we observed cat home range tracking data from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. An organism’s home range is the physical area covered by its daily movements to obtain food, seek shelter, or find mates. Both of us collected data from fifteen different cats inContinue reading “Cat Tracker”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 3-29-20 In this week’s lab, we analyzed ant picnic data from 2016-2018. In the experiments that we analyzed former students conducted a study to determine which food sources attracted more ants in the urban environments. Each group selected four sites around the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga to gather their data. They eachContinue reading “Urban Ecology”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 3-8-20 In this week’s lab, we explored the adaptation of oak leaves. There are different sized leaves on different zones of the oak tree. Trees must balance the intake of sunlight and heat. Trees want to maximize the intake of sunlight while not taking in too much heat. Canopy trees areContinue reading “Adaptation of oak leaves”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 3-1-20 In this week’s lab, we performed a Hardy-Weinberg Simulation. The Hardy-Weinberg Law proposes that allelic frequencies will remain constant across generations. The Hardy-Weinberg Law works around a set of basic assumptions. The Hardy-Weinberg assumptions are that the population is large, no gene flow is occurring with other populations, little toContinue reading “Evolutionary Ecology”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 2-9-20 In this week’s lab, we focused on thermoregulation. Thermoregulation are the processes that your body uses to maintain equilibrium and biological functions. There are two main ways of doing this: Ectothermy and Endothermy. Ectotherms easily and rapidly exchange heat with the environment around them. Endotherms have much higher metabolisms andContinue reading “Temperature relations”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 2-2-20 In this week’s lab, we focused on Phenology. Phenology is the study of the cyclic actions and seasonal characteristics, which it relates to climate, plant, and animal life. Which in this case for our lab we dealt with flowering plants, emergence of worker bees, and migration of birds. In ecologyContinue reading “The Effects of Temperature on Phenological Events”

Tyron Arnett Brock Smith 1-13-20 What is Science Communication? 1.    What is science communication according to the presenters? How does it differ from Monica Feliu-Mojer’s definition of science communication? ·      Communication about research, have to communicate to experts and to also non-experts so they too will be able to analyze and understandContinue reading “Science Communication”