Essays Tagged: "parasitic"

Fungus

ients for food. Fungi, together with bacteria decay and decompose organic matter. Some fungi can be parasitic and cause serious diseases in plants and animals. Though considered an individual kingdom ...

(2 pages) 47 1 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Fungi

ients for food. Fungi, together with bacteria decay and decompose organic matter. Some fungi can be parasitic and cause serious diseases in plants and animals. Though considered an individual kingdom ...

(2 pages) 76 1 5.0 Jan/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Legend by David Gemmell, evaluation essay

roduction of the flea. In this poem, the flea literally is a representation of what it simply is; a parasitic insect that feeds off the blood of its host. In lines 3-6, the speaker tells how the flea ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Why did the ideas of Hitler make mass murder possible?

was an active person or an "offensive" person with his ideas.In Mien Kampf, Hitler wrote about the parasitic Jew over and over again. He believed that the Jew is a parasite because the Jew had lived ...

(2 pages) 75 4 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Alternative Energy

rth deteriorates. Our simple excuse is that we need power to sustain our convenient lives. With our parasitic role upon nature, we ensure our own doom. By using safer and cleaner energy sources, we no ...

(1 pages) 62 0 4.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Experimental design testing antibacterial soap.

made of 70 trillion cells there are 700 trillion bacteria. Most are not harmful, but others can be parasitic. Bacteria were not discovered before the time of microscopes. There was no link between wa ...

(5 pages) 86 0 4.6 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Nematoda Report.

*Phylum Nematoda consists completely of Roundworms.*Two types: parasitic and free-living. 90,000 species known; many more exist!*These Roundworms are unsegmen ...

(1 pages) 1126 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Ancylostomiasis

common today in poor areas where the bathroom may be an outhouse or simply the outdoors. Hookworms' parasitic region is the upper small intestine, especially the upper jejunum. Hookworms my also be to ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Nutrition

, and animals. Heterotrophic plants may be saprophytic (obtaining nutrients from dead organisms) or parasitic (obtaining nutrients from living organisms while living on or in them). Heterotrophic anim ...

(5 pages) 338 0 4.3 Sep/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Plants And Fungi

ssociation between soil fungi and plant roots. A mycorrhizal relationship is a symbiosis, but not a parasitic relationship. A parasitic relationship is that between a parasite and a host. A symbiosis ...

(1 pages) 9 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology