Biology Now, 2e

266 ■ CHAPTER 14 The History of Life EVOLUTIONARY TREE A diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among a related group o ...

The First Bird ■ 267 (^12) Fill in the tree below to show the evolutionary relationships among the domains and kingdoms of life. ...

Navel Gazing Scientists discover hundreds of new species of microbes—burrowed deep in our belly buttons. ◆ (^) Differentiate bet ...

269 BIODIVERSITY 15 CHAPTER BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA ...

270 ■ CHAPTER 15 Bacteria and Archaea BIODIVERSITY T he gathering crowd jostled for position around the table. The scientists be ...

Navel Gazing ■ 271 Rob Dunn is an applied ecologist at North Carolina State University. His fascination with species around us i ...

272 ■ CHAPTER 15 Bacteria and Archaea BIODIVERSITY Figure 15.4 Citizen scientists work alongside professional scientists to incr ...

Navel Gazing ■ 273 to generate that tree, they showed that life is clearly dominated by prokaryotes (Figure 15.5). Merry Microbe ...

274 ■ CHAPTER 15 Bacteria and Archaea BIODIVERSITY the microbes and chemically dissolving their cell membranes with detergent, s ...

Navel Gazing ■ 275 species on himself known solely for eating pesti- cides. Why it was on his skin remains a mystery. Amazingly, ...

276 ■ CHAPTER 15 Bacteria and Archaea BIODIVERSITY Talk, but No Sex Like the plants and animals in a rainforest, microbes in an ...

Navel Gazing ■ 277 The gambit worked. Mathematician Sharon Berwick at the University of Maryland took a new approach to the data ...

278 ■ CHAPTER 15 Bacteria and Archaea BIODIVERSITY iron ore, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia, instead of from sunlight. In fact, t ...

Navel Gazing ■ 279 Q1: From the prokaryotic structures shown in Figure 15.7, what shape would you assign to drawing number 8 in ...

There’s no way around it: Your belly button is full of bugs. According to research from Rob Dunn’s lab at North Carolina State U ...

Navel Gazing ■ 281 microbes as the bad guys that our bodies were constantly at war with. But now we recognize that our ecosystem ...

282 ■ CHAPTER 15 Bacteria and Archaea THE QUESTIONS The Basics (^1) Prokaryotes include (a) archaeans. (b) bacteria. (c) fungi. ...

Navel Gazing ■ 283 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047712.t001 2,188 1–10 97 11–20 31 21–30 12 31–40 17 41–50 11 51–60 4 91–100 2 81–9 ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants Nighttime poaching and illegal trade threaten to drive rare plants and fungi to extinction. ◆ (^ ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants 285 BIODIVERSITY 16 CHAPTER PLANTS, FUNGI, AND PROTISTS ...