Favorite Organsim and Ecological Niche

Bengal tiger  

* Ecological Niche :-

- Most powerful predators  (they kill other animals for food and no other animals kill them).

- Dominant

-No natural enemies

-Being able to prey upon any other species(including other predators)

Mitochondrial Eve

“Mitochondrial Eve is the name given by scientists to the woman who is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans. That means that all living humans have mitochondrial DNA derived from hers”.  Mitochondrial Eve lived in East Africa around 200,000 years ago and then spread across the globe.


                                                         Mitochondrial Eve

                                                                 

Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is "an international center for research and education in biology, biomedicine and ecology", established in 1888. It is the oldest marine laboratory in the United States

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Butterfly Effect

The butterfly effect is a chaos theory which shows that small action can have large system effects. “The wing movements of a butterfly might have significant repercussions on wind strength and movements throughout the weather systems of the world”.For example, a butterfly flapping its wings in China might change the weather in Chicago.


http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-butterfly-effect.htm