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Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine a convenient and accurate way to orally administer an anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin, to pet rats in order to treat them for Fur Mites. Method…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals What type of sand do sand dollars like to live in? I am interested in fossils and I also always wondered what sand dollars really are. I always thought that they were just s…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to study two diffrent famalies of the order Cetacea and find out if the respiration rate to rate weight ratio will differ between diffrent age groups of Orc…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if holding the baseball bat in the correct position (with the proximal interphalangeal knuckles of both hands aligned) results in less hand mus…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine the affect of temprature,humidity and flora on Biodiversity of Bugs found in our local eniornment. To compare biodiversity sesonally using Shano…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if it mattered where a nightcrawler (earthworm) was cut in order for it to regenerate. Methods/Materials I cut the nightcrawlers at: 1.27cm posterior (bin 1)…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I tested to see if fruit flies would be more attracted to a real banana or a synthetic banana ester. Methods/Materials Material List: 2 vials of flightless fruit flies, 1 la…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Until now there has been no reliable method available to specifically determine the frequency range at which hearing-impaired dogs can hear. The goal of this experiment was…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if you could make a veild chameleon change colors. Methods/Materials I had two different lights, red, and yellow. I also had a mirror to see if h…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Rats and other rodents do a considerable amount of damage worldwide by gnawing on electrical lines. The purpose of this project was to determine if rats showed a preference…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if humidity has an effect on antlion predation. My hypothesis was that a higher humidiy would increase the number of ants an antlion would eat. M…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if the crickets were attracted to certine types of hairs in different temperatures. I wanted to see which hairs the crickets was attracted to in wa…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the Armadillidium vulgare (pill bug) shows taxis (movement due to stimulus) or kinesis (random movement) when given the opt…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to investigate the effects that spices will have on ants. The reason I am doing this investigation is to derermine if spices work as a better ba…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine the effect of exercise on the blood glucose levels of people with Type 1 diabetes. When people eat carbohydrates, they are turned in…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The title of my project is #Do Birds Respond to Different Colored Bird Seed?# The purpose of my project was to see if birds were affected by color, more specifically if bird…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to investigate whether gender, age or smoking habits affect a person's sense of smell. Methods/Materials Twelve distinct scented oils and on…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Recent research on coral bleaching suggests the bacterium Vibrio shiloi might cause coral bleaching as water temperature increases. Vibrio shiloi renders algae that feed the…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if fear has an affect on the behavior of a mouse. I believe that a mouse will reach the end of a maze in a slower time after the rats# scent is a…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether or not the introduction of peanuts into the diet of chickens would result in larger and heavier chicken eggs. Assum…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to use the scientific method to determine if red sea urchins use touch or smell to find their food. Methods/Materials First, I starved the urchins for at le…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to observe the trapdoor snails throughout the day and record their behavior in tallied charts. My goal was to see if the behavioral patterns could be analyz…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals In this study a transect in the intertidal zone of Davenport Landing State Beach is monitored to determine if the population of mussels impacts the biodiversity of the commu…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if new copper banding, copper with patina, or irrigated copper banding would prevent brown garden snails from reaching their food sources. We g…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see how habitat diversity and pond size in flood basins affected the numbers of birds and the species of birds using the ponds, over a period of two year…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to explore what happens to the heart rate and the cardiac output in hearts that have atherosclerosis in the aorta and valve disease on the mit…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if earthworms, represented by Eisenia fetida, can live and reproduce in distressed California ecosystems, such as soil from tille…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if different external environmental factors, which simulate different natural habitats, affect the reproduction rates of Metri…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The focus of this experiment is to explore the possible ability of purple sea urchins by manipulating a non-tactile chemical sensory mechanism to detect distant objects, suc…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My problem question was #Can Mytilus edulis (mussels), in the class of bivalvia and the phylum mollusca, absorb the particles put in the water they live in?# My hypothesis s…