Blog#12

Blog#12 What surprised you from the worm's dissection?
 What surprised me from the worms dissection is how stiff the worm was.  I thought worms were easy to kill and open because they look so fragile.  They are squishy too so thats why i thought it would be easy to dissect.  The worm was pretty big as well i never knew there were worms that size.  It was a harder dissection project then i expected.

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





The relations of alternation of generations to plants is compared because it goes through the steps of how a plant grows.  The female gametes, male gametes, mitosis, and fertilization all relate to growing a plant.  It goes through haploid generation and diploid generation.  Its like a cycle it just goes around thats how plants are grown.

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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 an important part of a biology curriculum because it lets you learn about the insides of an animal.  It gives you the experience to see how the body structure of an animal is.  Animals that should be included to the biological studies are frogs and the plants are grass because those are normal to dissect on.  The biological studies are those that should be included in.

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Blog 9
Define the different forms of community interaction: competition, commensalism, mutualism, predation, parasitism Give an example and a picture for each

Competition

Interaction that can occur between individuals or species as they attempt to use the same, limited resources, particularly energy, nutrients or space

Bees competes to get honey.

Mutualism -beneficial to both species

Actually a two-way exploitation. Food is beneficial to both species.

Predators

Predators kill and eat other organisms

Spiders kill bees to eat.      

Parasitism - one organism benefits by feeding on another

Fungus        

Commensalism -one benefits but the other is neither helped or harmed

Birds using certain trees as roosting sites or barnacles attaching to the skin of a whale