First I will let you know I am a Chem major and I hate Zoo. ( dont hate me please). I say that to inspire sypathy. My Zoo teacher has students grouped in threes and asked us to desing a groupd reseach progect.
The research progect hast be the follow
1 Unique or statement of why you are repeating a experiment ( expecting differnt results)
2 minmum 20 hours feild, actaully doing the experiment
3 research paper and presentation.
I am having a hard time formulating research idea. Partly because I am not very interested. I tried to use some chemistry but the experiments become to complicated.
All ideas would greatly be appreciated.
I like fish, anphibains, reptiles and I live in northern Cali ( Sacramento)
2007-09-14 04:29:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Ignore frank. and his hatefull speech he will no doubt post here
2007-09-14 09:20:01 · update #1
When I was at Florida and in one of my zoo classes, we did a little project with dragonflies. Dragon flies have mites. You catch different species of dragon flies. Then count the mites. Would be helpful if you could tell the difference in the mites, but not really required. Also note where the mites are on the dragonfly. Make sure you record as much stuff as you can. Even the time of day, weather, everything. Make sure you include your methods. Maybe bring a camera along.
One project I did on my own for ornithology was to monitor osprey. It was mostly a behavior I was interested in, but the prof wanted some stats. So, I included catch per unit effort for osprey catching fish.
OK, so there you have two good ideas. Good luck.
2007-09-14 05:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's a lot of room for chemistry work in zoology - look up Thomas Eisner at Cornell; that place is kind of a hot-bed of organismal chemistry. Do a search on pheromones, or bioluminescence, or growth hormones. Look at the experiments that people did to work out the basics of how these things worked - a number of them weren't real complicated. They might give you some ideas. Eisner, in particular, is famous for his 'real-world' approach to figuring out what's going on with insect chemistry. Other possibilities might include things like plant/animal interactions (think flower/pollinator or predator/prey) - many of these involve some sort of chemical mediation or influence. A good way to start is simply to look around you and start asking questions about how things are working, or why things happen like that. Good luck!
2007-09-14 07:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
between the main crucial issues taking place in zoology recently is the reclassification of species and specially subspecies. It has to do with all the artwork that has been completed with animal genomes. merely %. any significant species, wolf, great cats, you spot they are nevertheless "discussing" the taxonomy. comparable is going for amphibians. Cryptozoology is a pseudo technology. that's one hundred% trash. no longer a zoology subject count number.
2017-01-02 04:53:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It "became too complicated?" Typical response for a conservative. You are unfit for scientific inquiry because you are not smart enough to make the connections that exist between all disciplines.
Please feel free to update your knowledge of U.S. political positions as well. Legalizing gay marriage does not force any sort of morality on anyone; it merely permits those who are gay and desiring to be monogamous (as opposed to promiscuous) to make a public commitment. It's called equality.
2007-09-14 07:56:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you should prove that no one is afraid of homosexuals. Good luck! You'll need it.
2007-09-14 04:57:08 · answer #5 · answered by oldwhatshername 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋