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I have to ask my biology professor a question that deals with biology that I don't think she can no the answer of (for extra credit purposes) I just can't think of anything hard.

2006-08-30 17:16:14 · 10 answers · asked by Ashley M 1 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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You're thinking that the question has to be tough is the first issue.
Sometimes the simplest things are the most difficult to explain.
For instance, the old question, in abbreviated context:
"Why does a bumblebee fly? It's body is way too heavy for the wings to support it and this defies the Laws of Aerodynamics"...
The typical answer is "The bumblebee doesn't know the Laws of Aerodynamics... so it flies anyway".
Now think of something 'simple'.

2006-08-30 17:22:11 · answer #1 · answered by J.D. 6 · 0 0

Hummingbirds, which eat nectar and very small insects (both high-energy foods), have an incredibly high metabolic rate and typically feed every 10-15 minutes in the wild.
"While hovering, it has an energy output per unit of weight about 10 times that of a man running 9 miles an hour. If a 170-pound man led the equivalent of a hummingbird's life, he would burn up 155,000 calories a day and evaporate about 100 pounds of perspiration an hour." (Source: Song and Garden Birds of North America, Alexander Wetmore, National Geographic Society, 1964).
So how DOES this tiny bird manage to migrate such tremendous distances, considering its frequent need for food and the fact that it doesn't have much space for fat reserves? The same text indicates that rubythroats "travel at least 2,000 miles from breeding site to winter quarters" and "even cross(es) the Gulf of Mexico" (p. 57).
I don't think there's too many offshore feeders out in the Gulf, and they don't fly THAT fast.....

P.S. If you ask this, and she gives you a coherent answer, can you come back and post her reply? I'd rather have *that* than the 10 points. Thanks!

2006-08-30 18:16:19 · answer #2 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0 0

i will grant you some usual suggestion. the main important subject seems to be which you do no longer purely like the instructor, yet i'm able to assist you to already know that this might ensue back as long as you nevertheless be in training and you won't be able to drop out each and every time this occurs, it is a element of existence that we don't love all human beings we come across and you purely ought to make the main suitable of those situations. 2d you detect biology perplexing. It comes as a marvel to all human beings while impulsively they do no longer discover each and everything hassle-free and faster or later we ought to consistently learn how to artwork greater durable at those issues. it is like hiking a mountain, you warfare until eventually you attain the incredible. back, in case you purely come to a decision on something much less perplexing each and every time this occurs you will make no progression. once you communicate approximately getting help, curiously you're taking the help and then no longer thinking issues by thoroughly for your self earlier answering. there are a number of belongings you ought to do to advance the region, you ought to circulate to a library or e book place and detect a e book it is clever to you. you additionally should chat on your instructor and clarify the type you experience which you're suffering and spot if she has any innovations - you would be pleasantly stunned. additionally, in the mean time you ought to prioritise the perplexing problem earlier to those you detect hassle-free. you already know that in case you drop out, you will close specific doors to the destiny. while you're truthfully advantageous which you do no longer decide for a destiny with any technology then usual technology will supply you the college fundamentals, however the alternative is then made. in case you have any targets alongside with drugs wherein biology is a ought to then you definately will ought to persevere.

2016-10-01 02:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I come in on the first day of Biology and they say... "nothing is created in a vacume" and by the end of the class, I leave convinced of evelution???

how does that work, the blind leading the blind???

2006-08-30 17:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by uncle.bubba 2 · 0 0

A protein’s tertiary structure is most strongly influenced by what?

The answer is: ionic and hydrogen bonds between R groups

2006-08-30 17:24:55 · answer #5 · answered by mistress_piper 5 · 0 0

Just asked about who was first the egg or the chicken?. hehehehe

2006-08-30 17:22:14 · answer #6 · answered by Jose_BBN 1 · 0 0

why did the octupus's eye, which is jsut as advanced (evolutionarily speaking), develop soo quickly and sooo much earlier than did ours? (altho she might say b/c of chance)

2006-08-30 17:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by tell me all!!! 4 · 0 0

If female breasts are for feeding and giving of milk to sustain
life for their young, why do men have nipples?????

2006-08-30 17:25:59 · answer #8 · answered by jimbo_wizard 5 · 0 0

ask her what mating call does a cardinal sound like

answer is car alrm im serious

2006-08-30 17:22:38 · answer #9 · answered by aznxpranksta69 4 · 0 0

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2006-08-30 17:21:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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