Cone

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xb5af7hppfdmpdv/conesnail.jpg I found this critter (or hundreds of them to be exact) off the coast of Rhodes. I identified it as a cone snail, perhaps Conus ventricosus or similar. I've understood that all ...

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... retina of a human's eye. We're to name the elements of the retina marked as letters. That's what I have: a - ganglion cell b - bipolar cell c - cone cell d - rod cell But I don't have even a slightest guess with e and f.. could you help me? And regarding the other exercise: we're to complete ...

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It is definitely not one of the Cone shell species the Conidae family have rounded "unkeeled" shells, although it has very similar markings to the Textile cone (Conus textile) it could easy be mistaken for one, I do not know what ...

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... of intensity of lights, UV lamptube is with diverse light but LED is with a more intense and focusing light. It means the convergence of light cone angle is smaller for LEDs. LED's light flux is much higher than UV lamps. It is also hard to measure the luminance with a fair condition. The UV ...

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In other words the TOL starts at the top and diversifies down to species level. The so-called "inverted cone of diversity." As stated above, the fossil record shows a hierarchical “topdown” pattern in which phyla-level disparity of body plans appears first followed ...

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