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W12 Enrichment: I Love How You Styled Your Head Scales!

             Animals share an evolutionary relationship with each other; just like the human body still carries various genes that are related to monkeys and fishes as our ancestors. There are plenty of characteristics found in the world of animals that prove the inner monkey and fish in us. From simple cells to fishes, from fishes to reptiles, and from reptiles to primates, animals have evolved creating different species. Although we did not evolve from modern monkeys, our ancestors the primates had a lot in common with other animals but managed to shape their bodies and brain with time. Therefore, sharing various common genes. Scientists have found several fossils of different sizes and weights providing evidence of the type of anatomy, culture, and behavior of different animals. Tooth fossils for example showed the animal’s lifespan and diet type (omnivore, herbivore, carnivore, or detritivore). Unlike some earlier predator mammals such as th...

W10 Enrichment: An Evolving Understanding ... of Evolution

            Based on their fitness, the merging of two genes (alleles) produces an organism with physical traits and behaviors associated with the two alleles. Of the two alleles, one is dominant (expressed) and will reign supreme over the other that is recessive (masked). The project experiment with the three types of fish illustrates how dominant genes always express the dominant trait while the recessive genes mask their trait. Although the  white fish (rr genotype) and redfish (RR genotype)  fitness are strong (white and red color respectively), the population’s proportion in terms of colors was always marginalized by their DNA production at some point  speckled fish (Rr genotype) . But at a certain period before their extinct, each genotype dominated or remained the only existing until reproducing back the other genotypes. When the brood size was reduced, the  birth rate  of the species decreased which in return caused the po...

A Day On the Reef

Kelps and corals are reefs that provide an important ecosystem for life underwater. Although these two ecosystems might have some similarities and differences, Kelps are seaweeds and type of brown algae that look a lot like plants, with an organism that depends on water and get its energy from sunlight. The longest Kelp’s type can reach up to 53 meters. Corals on the other side are marine invertebrates that form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Though these reefs may look like beautiful plant growing from roots, it is actually an animal. Aquatic animals decided which reefs suit best their organism. The table above describes a list of animals commonly found in their respective reef. CORAL REEF KELP FOREST Batfish:  omnivores that have an unusual habit of playing dead. Leopard shark: a docile toward humans that feed on fish eggs, worms, and more Cownose ray:  eat  mollusks and...

W08 Enrichment - Climate Connections

A prolonged dry period , storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, deforestation, burning fossil fuels, and warming oceans can directly harm the environment for animals and plants. The UN refers to Climate change as  “long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.” These shifts may be natural, but since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas), which produces heat-trapping gases. For millions of years or  even  recently, some species went extinct due to Climate change. For example, out of the two types of trilobites, only the Benthic survived the Ordovician’s mass extinction probably due to their organism’s type and the environment while the Planktonic went extinct. Another example is the Golden toad – a type of frog discovered in the mid-1960 and went extinct in 2004 due to a possible Climate Change. Just like these two examples, Dunkleosteus (...

In the Beginning, God Created the Earth

The statement “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” has brought a lot of reactions to my mind especially after taking this course: From Atoms to Humans. The creation has phased itself with either the lawful self-assembly’s actions (produces order spontaneously) or the agent-designed assembly’s actions (requires energy moving  through the system). Scriptures state that in the beginning, the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  This confirms the thesis of the dark matter in the universe as the foundation or source of the galaxies that we have. But this dark matter needs energy called dark energy to influence the expansion of the universe. This energy is mysterious to scientists but understood by us through revealed truth as the power of God. Hence, He is above all creations either lawfully self-made or agent-designed made. Our current cultures make us consider darkness as negative, harmful, or evil. But as a...
  Brigham Young University - Idaho CSE 341 Project Web Backend Development - Fall 2022            Customer Record Manipulation (CRM)                                               Author: Fabrice Tshiyoyi Banyingela & Komlavi Djossou Supervisor: Shawn Porter Supervisor email: portersh@byui.edu         Acknowledgment Our sincere gratitude to my course’s Professor Shawn Porter for his time in supervising our project. Introduction Nowadays, programmers have seen how crucial it is to consider the needs of web users by producing a design that meets the client’s requirements. Creating these systems requires skills in database, frontend, and backend development to help users have a well-functioned project. Description Thi...

Lesson 8: OAuth

OAuth is an authentication protocol used for app (web or mobile) data access authorization. This method helps to make use of a third-party system such as Google, Facebook, or GitHub to gain access to the application. A common example is making use of your Google mail (Gmail) or Facebook account to register and log in to Glitch.com. So this protocol needs three parties in any OAuth mechanism: the client (the user), the consumer (eg: Glitch), and the service provider (eg: Google). The OAuth uses the following steps: 1.     Within your application such as Glitch.com, a window appears allowing the user to login/register using an existing account with Facebook or Google Mail 2.     Once authenticated and authorized, the third-party app acknowledges the permission and redirects the user back to your app via a pre-configured URL. Your application exposes an endpoint for such callback operations and hits the third-party provider API to ask for an acce...