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Answer These Five Multiple Choice Questions about the Novel Covid_19 Disease and SARS-CoV-2 to Test Your Science Literacy. For Each Question, Only of the Choices is Correct.

You can become infected with the Covid-19 disease if you breathe in air that is contaminated with the virus known as ____________. (a) Deltainfluenza virus (b) Influenza A virus (c) SARS-CoV- 2 (d) H2N2 (Correct answer = c) 2. To reduce your chances of becoming infected with the Covid-19 disease, you should wear a/an________ faceContinue reading “Answer These Five Multiple Choice Questions about the Novel Covid_19 Disease and SARS-CoV-2 to Test Your Science Literacy. For Each Question, Only of the Choices is Correct.”

One of the Other Two Films That I Nominated for the Applied Plant Ecology Film Festival: an Explanation of Why and How it Relates to Applied Plant Ecology

One of the other two films that I nominated was “Fresh Water”, which is the seventh episode of the Netflix original documentary series called “Our Planet”. The documentary film presents examples of how dependent organisms are on the abiotic elements of their environment e.g freshwater and oxygen. It also showcases examples of food chains (whoContinue reading “One of the Other Two Films That I Nominated for the Applied Plant Ecology Film Festival: an Explanation of Why and How it Relates to Applied Plant Ecology”

The Difference Between Peer-Reviewed Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Literature

Primary literature is written information that describes an original research, and is usually written by the individual(s) involved in conducting the research first-hand. In science fields, primary research scientific articles usually have these subsections in the following order: abstract; introduction; methods; results; and conclusion. The abstract, which is sometimes not explicitly titled “abstract” in someContinue reading “The Difference Between Peer-Reviewed Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Literature”

Are Viruses Alive and How Do They Evolve?

Lately when I hear the word virus, especially in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the other words that immediately come to my mind include “illness, hospitalisation, and caution”. For those who are visual thinkers, figure 1, which has been shown in media outlets many times, could come to mind after hearing the wordContinue reading “Are Viruses Alive and How Do They Evolve?”

An Article on the Impacts of Herbivore Populations on Plant Diversity

In BIOL4095 lectures, the detrimental effects that large populations of deer can have on plants were covered.1 In the Habitat restoration lecture led by Dr. Dawn Bazely, she shared with the class the results of her previous scientific experiments. Bazely and her colleagues found that creating physical enclosures in forests where deer populations existContinue reading “An Article on the Impacts of Herbivore Populations on Plant Diversity”