The Wiki assignment is a semester-long project that you will be doing throughout the semester to demonstrate your understanding of core concepts in the sociological study of race and ethnic relations.
For this assignment students are expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding of one of the core concepts from the class as well as how it relates to other core concepts that they will be learning about in the class. Students will create a wiki page that contains all of the following information:
– Overview
– Table of Contents
– Definiton
– Explanation broken down into subtopics
– Additional Research that can help the class broaden their understanding of your topic
– Links to related content (including links to relevant class wiki pages)
– References
Sample Solution
– Historical Background
– Current status of the topic and its relevance in today’s world.
– Real Life Examples, such as case studies or media stories.
– Conclusions
In order to complete this assignment, students will need to do extensive research on the chosen topic, including reading from a variety of sources both online and offline. Students should also be prepared to cite their sources according to academic standards for citing sources. This is an important part of demonstrating understanding and source authentication.
Sample Solution
– Historical Background
– Current status of the topic and its relevance in today’s world.
– Real Life Examples, such as case studies or media stories.
– Conclusions
In order to complete this assignment, students will need to do extensive research on the chosen topic, including reading from a variety of sources both online and offline. Students should also be prepared to cite their sources according to academic standards for citing sources. This is an important part of demonstrating understanding and source authentication.
n this experiment, small and large lima beans were used to test whether or not bean beetles had a preferred site size for oviposition. Our hypothesis proposed that if a preference was shown, a greater number of eggs would be oviposited on the larger lima beans compared to small lima beans. We predicted that they would prefer the larger bean because it has a greater surface area, therefore finding a spot on the bean to oviposit would be easier to do. On the contrary, our results show that we reject the null hypothesis due to the fact that our p-value was so extremely small. Because of this, we can conclude that C. maculatus prefer smaller sized lima beans for oviposition. The preference for a smaller lima bean could be due to a chemical cue preferred by, or undesirable to, bean beetles. Another reason could be that the nutrient to surface area ratio is greater, or because larger beans may be more appealing to predators. According to a similar experiment conducted by Jason Cope and Charles Fox, bean beetle eggs were distributed so that resources were maximized per individual offspring (2002). They found that females preferred a larger mass compared to surface area due to the quantity of resources available inside the seed. Although our experiments measured different variables, in both findings we can identify that a larger surface area is not ideal for bean beetle site preference for oviposition.
In an experiment conducted by Grace Pitman, Tyler Flockhart, and Ryan Norris, they measured which size and what density of a milkweed patch was preferred by the monarch butterfly for oviposition (2018). Their results showed that a small, low-density patch had the highest egg density. This was because larger patches showed an increase in predator abundance (Flockhart et al. 2018). When determining sites for oviposition, the one that increases probability of offspring survival is more desirable. Therefore, choosing a small, low-density site for oviposition increased the probability that the offspring would survive and reproduce. This relates to our experiment because we tested to find the preferred site that would increase survival in b
