Cold Climate=Big Body size

 For most species of animals, body mass increases the closer you
get to the poles.
 The bigger you are, the more fat you can store to help you get
through the winter.
 bigger animals have a smaller surface area-to-volume ratio, which
helps reduce heat loss- a pattern known as Bergmann’s Rule.

Migrantwatch and Seasonwatch.

Two projects started by National Centre for Biological Sciences,
Bangalore, (NCBS)
These projects are aimed at involving common citizen in scientific
research.

Migrantwatch Seasonwatch

builds up baseline data about the

participants in this activity identify
flowering and fruiting of trees, to
migrant birds and note down the first
work on climate-season change
sighting and feed it into the online
from ecological
database: www.migrantwatch.in
angle. www.seasonwatch.in

Bactrian camels and heavy-chain antibodies

 Two-humped camel
 Found in cold deserts of central Asia. (China, Mongolia)
 They consume eight times more salt than cattle and have twice the
blood glucose levels of other ruminants, yet do not develop
diabetes or hypertension.
 They also produce unique disease-fighting proteins called heavy-
chain antibodies, which interest pharmaceutical engineers.

Ross Sea: Marine Protected Zone

  The Ross Sea, located in arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in
Antarctica.
 Ross sea is populated by seals, whales, fish, penguins and other
birds.
 Environment activists want to create Marine protected zones
(MPAs) in Ross sea= where fishing would be totally banned.

Lake Vida
 in East Antarctica
 hosts some newly discovered microbes, 60 feet below ice.
 Thus proving that where there is water, there is life.

Chromatophores
 Right now, the lipstick colores are made using artificial chemicals.
 These chemicals can cause allergy and even cancer.
 Scientists have now found reddish-brown spores in squid skin that
can be used for lipstick colors.
 They are screening it for consumer acceptance applying hedonic
scale method.

Hedonic Scale Method

 Hedonic Scale is used in food science, marketing research where
the respondents indicate the extent to which they either like or
dislike for a particular product sample.

Brevetoxin-2
 compound produced naturally by marine algae, currently under
research.
 can be used for Treatment of stroke.

Mock Questions
Q1 Which of the following is incorrectly matched

1. Migrantwatch UN project of Tracking human migration

 patterns.

2. Chromatophores found in Plant leaves, help in photosynthesis.

3. Seasonwatch Project to build database of flowering, fruiting

patterns in various seasons.

a. Only 1
b. Only 1 and 2
c. Only 3
d. All of them

Q2. Which of the following is correctly matched

1. Two-horned Rhino India

2. Two-humped Camel Mongolia

a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None

Q3. Which of the following is correctly matched

1. Hedonic Scale It stipulates that animals at colder regions

have higher bodymass.
2. Bergmann’s Rule Associated with Marketing research.

a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None