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Cohesion

In this picture you can see that while it began to rain, the rain began to join together forming droplets on the windshield. This is because of the process of cohesion.

Cohesion, like adhesion is a form of attraction between one or more objects or surfaces, but cohesion relies on two similar or identical objects in order for them to stick together. A common form of cohesion that we see almost every day is the forming of water droplets whether it be from morning dew, in the shower, or a rainy day. These water droplets are formed through the process of cohesion as tiny water molecules begin to attract and clump together forming these larger molecules of water.

Sources:
Mrs. Beethe's notes.

Adhesion

Tape is a common form of an adhesive that we often use around the house so I decided it would make a good example for adhesion.

Adhesion is a form of attraction that allows dissimilar particles and even some surfaces to cling together through a form of direct contact. Adhesion is very different from cohesion because the forces in adhesion require dissimilar particles in order for the molecules to stick together, while in cohesion both of the particles must be similar or identical in order for them to cling together. Adhesion is where the term of using "adhesives" comes from as they allow things like tape to stick to a wooden object applying the reference to different surfaces clinging to eachother.

Sources:
Mrs. Beethe's notes.

Evaporative Cooling

Over the cup of boiling water you can see steam rising up, this steam helps in the process of evaportive cooling as it releases heat in the form of that steam to cool the water faster.

Evaporative cooling is the process that helps remove heat from certain objects in a form of releasing heat energy. As objects release steam or other hot vapors they release many of their heat atoms from the object itself slowly causing it to lose energy allowing it to grow colder over time as more energy is released. This form of cooling takes place in both liquid and solid objects such as foods or beverages.

Sources:
Mrs. Beethe's notes.

Carnivore

This big fella is a fish found at the local aquarium and he is a carnivore because his diet is only based off of other meaty fish.

Unlike herbivores, carnivores are very different forms of creatures that live off of a very meaty diet. Carnivores such as sharks and lions are known for their sharp teeth that they often use to rip apart the flesh of their prey. Carnivores live off of the nutrients they gain by eating herbivores or sometimes even smaller forms of carnivores and omnivores. By doing so, the nutrients that the other animal once held in its own body is absorbed into the body of the carnivore predator allowing it survive by commonly eating other animals.

Sources:
Mrs. Beethe's notes.

Herbivores

Animals can be classified into three different types of dietary groups and those three are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. Herbivores are consumers of producers and autotrophs as they eat mainly plants or fungi organisms. Herbivores are given their title because they stick to eating leafy greens and other plants, they do not however eat any forms of meat. Often herbivores tend to stay away from those that are meat eaters because they are creatures that hold nutrients that those meat eaters would consume in order to gain. A strange adaptation that these herbivores often have is that their teeth are more dull rather than sharp unlike carnivores because they do not use their teeth to sink into flesh of other animals. A few examples of herbivores would be koalas, llamas, cows and squirells.

Sources:
Mrs. Beethe's notes.

Epistasis

My dumb little dog oreo is an example of the outcome of epistasis. His mother was a pure black toy poodle and his father was all white, his brother ended up being black like his mother but he ended up being a mix of both the black and white genes.

Epistasis is when there is an interaction going on between two or more genes to control a phenotypes behavior. The number of genes interacting with eachoter during epistasis can be found using the Mendelian Genetics chart to find their genetic ratio. Epistasis can affect color, shape, texture and a few other features of different organisms depending on what the genes differ with when being interacted with one another. An example of epistasis that was actually observed by Gregor Mendel himself was the pea pod genetic changes where he saw changes in varying pea pod plants that had grown into different shapes, sizes and colors.

Sources:
McClean, Phillip. Gene Interactions. ndsu.edu. Retrieved September 2, 2011, from http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/mendel/mendel6.htm