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Why is it important to study grouse habitat selection and demography relative to human land use practices?

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Grouse species have evolved living in environments with little vertical structure and in areas with minimum human activity (from roads and cultivation to other more complex infrastructure). In the recent decades, there has been a significant increase in wind energy development in diverse areas and ecosystems. This development involves construction and placement of tall man-made structures, such as wind turbines and other infrastructure in habitats with high wind capacity. These habitats are often occupied by grouse species. This coexistence could severely endanger the species survivorship and reproductive ability. It is very important to study grouse habitat selection and demography, so that appropriate regulatory guidelines can be applied to wind energy development.

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Name a structure that is located toward the dorsal side of the body, lateral and superior to the hamstring but inferior to the h

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Answer: Kidney

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Kidney is a structure that is located toward the dorsal side of the body, lateral and superior to the hamstring but inferior to the heart.

The kidneys are a pair of bean shaped organs that are located at the downward part of the rib cage. The body of humans consists of two kidneys one kidney on each side of the spine and they're responsible for the filtering of excess water, waste products, and other impurities out of the human body.

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3. (a) The binomial naming system used to identify all living things gives the Indian elephant

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Genus = Elephas

Species = maximus

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Carolus Linnaeus, who is considered to be the FATHER OF TAXONOMY for his immense contribution to the classification of living organisms. Carolus Linnaeus between the year 1735 and 1758, developed a scientific system of naming organisms using two-way naming system called BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE.

The two Latin names given to organisms were derived from their generic and specific epithet i.e. one of the names is GENUS and the other SPECIES. According to this question, the scientific name using the binomial naming system for Indian elephant is Elephas maximus. This means that Elephas is the part that refers to GENUS while maximus is the part that refers to SPECIES.

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The right and left hepatic ducts emerge from the right lobe of the liver in the porta hepatis and unite to form the:

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common hepatic duct

Explanation:

The common hepatic duct is formed by the union of the right and left hepatic ducts emerging out from the right lobe of the liver.
The right hepatic duct is responsible for draining bile from the right half of the body whereas the left hepatic duct drains it from the left side of the body.
At the junction of the right and left hepatic duct, the common hepatic duct gets formed which then joins the cystic duct and then the common bile duct is formed.

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1. Introduction:

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1. Introduction

a. The Tiktaalik is a fossil that existed about 12 million years before the first tetrapods.

b. The items homeostatic mechanisms show are continuity and change.

2. Continuity

a. Our Excretory system is the system responsible for the discharging of waste products from the body.

Explanation:

1 a. Tiktaalik fossil (Tiktaalik roseae), also known as the "fishapod," is a 375 million year old fish fossil discovered in 2004 in the Canadian Arctic. The fossil displays a mixture of fish and amphibian traits (i.e the pioneer tetrapods). Those tetrapod features in the Tiktaalik marks the earliest appearance of these features in fossil record.

Importance: The discovery of the Tiktaalik fossil explains a crucial point in the history of life on Earth: i.e it sheds light on when the very first fish ventured out of the water onto land.

b. Continuity in homeostasis implies common ancestry or homology. For example the excretory system in flatworms, earthworms and vertebrates basically serves the same function, and has remained unchanged (save for a few tweaks), over the last few million years.

Change implies changes in the environment which causes changes in homeostatic mechanisms. For example the transition of aquatic animals from water to land which necessitates changes in their respiratory mechanisms.

2. Continuity

a. The excretory system is the system of an organism's body that is responsible for the function of excretion, the process of eliminating bodily wastes produced by homeostasis.

The mechanisms of homeostasis are body temperature, body fluid composition, blood sugar, gas concentrations, and blood pressure.

The organs that are involved in this process of waste elimination are the sweat glands, the liver, the lungs and the kidneys.

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