KoAP Biology Summer Homework: Surviving the Sickest Questions1. Life is more abundant in the North Atlantic than in the Pacific because the North Atlantic ocean area lies directly in the path of iron-rich dust from the Sahara Desert, which leads to the development of larger communities of phytoplankton and, in turn , of plankton. , and so on. This fact is related to global warming because someone thought of the idea of ​​fighting global warming by putting huge amounts of iron solution into the ocean so that extreme plant growth would occur and these plants would remove enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to counteract the negative effect. human effects.2. During Passover, Jews rid their homes of all traces of leavened bread and other grains. This decreased their exposure to foraging rats, and since rats were plague carriers, Jews' observance of Passover may have helped protect them from bubonic plague. Bloodletting can help clear up an infection because bleeding triggers the release of a specific hormone in humans that reduces fever and causes the immune system to increase its activity level. Since the immune system is responsible for fighting infections, giving the immune system a boost would help rid the body of infections. Although iron is a key nutrient and can be beneficial to the body, too much iron can allow infections to develop more quickly. When Dr. Weinberg tested tetracycline by adding some of it to Petri dishes with bacteria and various other nutrients, Dr. Weinberg concluded that the dish containing iron, even though the antibiotic was present, promoted an extreme amount of bacterial growth. The control variable in this experiment would just be… middle of paper… that humans do not have fur, unlike other primates, since fur would have made movement underwater extremely uncomfortable. Kooshul Jhaveri Page 1330. An idea that came to me after reading Survival of the Sickest is that evolutionary adaptations are not always perfect for the species; in fact, many times an evolutionary adaptation is a compromise. Furthermore, I understood that every aspect of man today is a product of evolution. Therefore, every detail of why something in the human body is the way it is can be explained by its value to the species at a given time – whether past or present – ​​for survival or for an increased ability to reproduce. Finally, the broad and extensive discussion presented in the novel shows me how important evolution is to biology. In every single idea, theory, or hypothesis explained, evolution has linked concepts together.