Grasshoppers

A lot of science is stream-of-consciousness. If you expected the grasshopper cells to be smaller because grasshoppers are smaller, but the cells were the same size, do you leap to the hypothesis that size-of-organism doesn't matter to cell size, or did the teacher pick two ...

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... A lot of things are determined by females being bigger and/or living longer than males. I remember in an intro class learning about a Nematode of grasshoppers that laid eggs on grass blades. If the grasshopper ate less than 10 eggs all would become females, more than 10 eggs they would all become ...

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... protein family, atracotoxin and omega-conotoxin, respectively, which occur in a diverse range of animals including spiders, molluscs, humans and grasshoppers. Two small venom proteins, svp1 and svp2, as well as cvp7 did not have similar sequences to proteins in the GenBank protein database suggesting ...

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... a segmented body and an exoskeleton. The body must be a head, thorax, and abdomen. Insects can have eight legs, like mites, or just six legs, like grasshoppers. Mutations occur in nature and in laboratories. But a laboratory that caused a mutation in an insect to say, have more legs, or a paticular ...

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It looks like a black and white Argiope to me, Argiope aurantia . My family kept on our garage door all summer and fed it grasshoppers. :) I would say definatly an Argiope

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