Daphnia Carinata Essay Examples

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An Experiment Measuring the Amount of Stress in Daphnia When Potassium Chloride Is Added (1419 words, 7 pages)

Stress is defined as the body's reaction to change that requires aresponse. Stress can be received from your own body, your thoughts, or yourenvironment. The responses can be mental, emotional, and physical. Asstress increases, heart rate also increases, and vice-versa. Stress can bea good thing as it helps to keep ... Read More

An Analysis of the Experiment, the Change in a Daphnia’s Heart Rate by Changing the Surroundings (1774 words, 9 pages)

TaskTo investigate the change in a daphnias heart rateresulting from a change in its surroundings.VariablesThe following input variables could be varied in thisexperiment, although some are obviously impractical due to time and skillconstraints Temperature of water surrounding daphnia Concentration of chemicals in surrounding water both stimulants (e.g. caffeine) and depressants ... Read More

The Effects of Caffeine and Temperature on the Heat Beat and the Daphnia’s Lifespan (4729 words, 13 pages)

Plan The initial variable to be considered will be the effect that caffeine and temperature has on the heart beat and if it has a direct or indirect effect on the daphnia's lifespan. If there is enough time to consider a second variable however, the effects of a temperature or ... Read More

An Overview of the Effects of Ibuprofen on the Heart Rate of the Daphnia (832 words, 6 pages)

IbuprofenAbstractThe project that I chose to research was the effect of Ibuprofen on the heartrate of the daphnia. The reason that I chose to do this was because many peoplein society use over the counter pain killers without really understanding any ofthe long term effects of this medicine other than ... Read More

A Research on the Effects of Ibuprofen on the Heart Rate of the Daphnia (831 words, 4 pages)

AbstractThe project that I chose to research was the effect of Ibuprofen on the heart rate of the daphnia. The reason that I chose to do this was because many people in society use over the counter pain killers without really understanding any of the long term effects of this ... Read More

The Anatomic Description of Daphnia or Water Fleas (1563 words, 3 pages)

, or water fleas, are small (0.2-6 mm) aquatic crustaceans forming one of the orders of the Branchiopoda. Most inhabit quiet fresh waters. Along with the rotifers and copepods they account for most of the freshwater zooplankton yet most of them are benthic. Most are filter feeders that consume phytoplankton ... Read More

Chemical Signalling Characteristics Exhibited by Daphnia Carinata (936 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the animal kingdom chemical signalling is widely used. It isused for mate signalling, as alarm signalling and in predator preyrelationships. In some cases the predator can used pheromones releasedby the prey to find them. One example of that is the German wasp whichis attracted to the mating pheromones of ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013