Select an ecosystem in your area (forest, lake, desert, grassland).

Write a 525- to 700-word paper explaining the following:

1) Describe the structure of your ecosystem including important abiotic features and dominant plant and animal species.

2) Explain some functions/processes of your ecosystem including one nutrient cycle and one food chain.

3) Give two examples of species interactions (predation, competition, mutualism, etc.) that occur in your ecosystem.

4) Identify an invasive species in your ecosystem. Explain its effects on the ecosystem and efforts to control or eradicate it.

Include two outside references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

You will submit two files for this assignment: 1) completed Excel sheet, and 2) completed answer sheet.

Please be aware the Excel sheet has two tabs: one for computations, the other for plotting.

Submissions will only take .doc, .docx, .xlsx, and .xls files. Convert from Google or Mac format to submit. Excel help at bottom. Google is your friend for using software: “How to plot xy plot in Excel 365”

Microsoft software is also available for free through USF (Microsoft 2016 & 365, under “Productivity”): https://software.usf.edu/all-software-category

That link would help you

Take-Home Experiment: Relative Velocity of a Boat Fill a bathtub half-full of water. Take a toy boat or some other object that floats in water. Unplug the drain so water starts to drain. Try pushing the boat from one side of the tub to the other and perpendicular to the flow of water. Which way do you need to push the boat so that it ends up immediately opposite? Compare the directions of the flow of water, heading of the boat, and actual velocity of the boat. Video and explain your findings

You are going to investigate a gene found in humans: its function, structure, relationship to other genes in humans and in other species. You will be using various online tools in National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). I Attached a link of the website below.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govInside the database the gene you will be looking for is: o51e1_human

please follow the Bioinformatics Lab 2018 powerpoint for directions.

The document “Bioinformatics Lab Answer Sheet 2018” is an example of how the final draft should resemble

its pre lab writing no questions to answer. i will attach files that have the experiment. I need you to write the Purpose of the experiment on your own words. just read its only on sentence. also i need you to read the background information and write it on your on words. Also read Procedure and write on your own words. see the files if you have any question let me know please.

Note: the purpose of the experiment and the background information should be one page.