Thursday, April 21, 2011

Blog #11

Blog #11
Get a picture of alternation of generations put it in your blog and explain how it relates to plants


It all starts with the pollen being released to a plant, thus growing it into a tree and repeat.
  
 

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Blog #10

Blog #10
Why is dissection an important part of a biology curriculum? Which animals and/or plants should be included in biological studies?

  Dissection is important because it shows us students how the body works for whatever we are learning about. This can prepare us if we want to pursuit a career in science or just teach us where parts belong where. Plus dissecting is fun, you get to cut open things and observe things you have never seen before. Animals that should be dissected would be like Lions, elephants, aligators, whale and other animals that they have in school. I'm not really that intrested in plants, but it's still good to learn about plants and how they funcion.


Thursday, April 7, 2011

Blog 9

Define the different forms of community interaction: competition, commensalism, mutualism, predation, parasitism Give an example and a picture for each.

  Type of community interaction is competition. Competition is an interaction between species or organisms and the fitness of one is lowered by the presence of the other. Competition can occur when the species are competing in the same area for a limited food supply or when they must share limiting resources. Species less suited to compete for resources either adapt or die out. That is why if something is off the food chain, it could majorly hurt the species.



   Community interaction is commensalism. Commensalism is a relationship between 2 organisms where one organism benefits from the other, but the other organism is not harmed but also does not benefit from the relationship. An example of commensalism is like the relationship between the sun and the plants. The plants benefit from the sun's sunlight, but the sun does not benefit from the plants, nor is it harmed by the plants. Us humans, need the plants to produce oxygen for us to breathe. Without it, our body's would intake all the bad air.






  Mutualism is the relationship between two organisms, where both organisms benefit from each other. An example of mutualism is bees and flowers. They all benefit from each other. When the bee polinates  the flower, the flower loses the polen it carried and has room to produce more. The bee on the other hand comes back with polen and food. They continue this and because it helps both species out.

 

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blog #8

Blog 8 Your choice talk about something you learned or ask a question about something that is confusing you

  Over the past year, i have learned that Biology is eveywhere. From species to atoms, everything is releated to science. It is amazing how we find fossils from millions of years ago. My Question is why the Sea turtle's life longer than a human's life? I find that strange because humans usually live longer than most species. Humans live around 70-90 years.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Blog #7

Blog 7 Compare and contrast two biomes describe them in detail include pictures of plants and animals you are liklely to see.

   Desert Biomes can withstand the power of the Suns heat, species that adapt to the desert can survive for a long time without water. For example, a camel roam in the desert, the camel stores water on their humps and go take people to their locations.


  Marine
  Marine regions cover about three-fourths of the Earth's surface and include oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries. Marine algae supply much of the world's oxygen supply and take in a huge amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The evaporation of the seawater provides rainwater for the land. They include many species like fishes and whales.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

BLOG 6

Blog #6 Which level of a food pyramid is the most important? Support your answer

   The most important is grain, having grain in your body is good. It fills you up because its a whole type of food. Grain could be created into many type of foods like noodles, pasta and rice. That goes really well with side dishes, so we can be full. With having food in our stomach, we will have tons of energy for later.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Blog #5

Blog #5 There have been 5 major extinction events throughout history, are humans impacting the 6th? Why or why not?

  Yes, humans hunt and polute the world which the animals, insects, repetiles or any other thing live in.  If you think about fishermen, they catch a load of fishes for markets. Hunters hunt for the joy of it. If that keeps up, many will be extinct and soon our world will not have a well working food chain. The only way to fix is this is to hunt less, we do neede these resources to survive.