Welwitschia Mirabilis

I learnt about the welwitschia mirabilis, this plant looked very interesting to me because it lives in the large deserts and also grows to be very large in size. Another great thing about this plant is that it drys out really fast so it could camouflage with the sand and this made it way easier for this plant to catch its food. This plant is also known for its amazing way of adapting to the extreme heat. This plant only has two leaves but since its soo large it makes it look like it has more then two also this plant lives up to 1000 years while other plants only live 5-10 years. This plant grows very slowly so it has adapted to the Namibian desert very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtZz297pZ8

Acorns and Pincones

An acorn is produced by the Oak tree and a pinecone is produced on a Pine tree. They both distribute seeds in and in that way they are similar. Pinecones come in a cone shape, and they are always different shapes, a male cone is different from a female cone. An acorn usually has one seed in it covered with a hard shell all acornsvare generally the same shape. 

Gymnosperm Drawings

Midterm Evaluation!

Classification:

This picture repersents classification because I learned a lot from this, this activity gave me the learning of what classification is. I learned the similarity of animals and thye differences, and I learned what kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species is.

Taxonomy: 

On my blog there is a Taxonomy activity Classification and Taxonomy is very similiar, but Taxonomy ias in more detail.  Each species belongs to a genus, each genus belongs to a family, and so on through order, class, phylum, and kingdom. My blog post really introduced me to the term Taxonomy, so I enjoy what I learned about it.

Evolution:

This was my evolution project, I learned what evolution was by this project because it was a ver tricky thing to do. It was hard to see which animal goes together, basically evolution is how animals change through time.

Viruses:

This is one of the worksheets I've done on viruses and this has helped me very much. I've learned that viruses go into the cell and they carry proteins. Ive also learned that there are two types of viruses one type is Lytic and the other is Lysogenic, both of the viruses go through a life cycle.

Bacteria:

Both of these two experiments gave me an idea of how bacteria grows and how many it multiples by, I learned what kills bacteria the most and what places perhaps may have a lot of bacteria. Bacteria is in the domain kingdom of prokaryotic microorganism, bacteria is in the form of spirals, rods, and spheres. After learning about bacteria I know the difference between bacteria and virus.

Protists:

This is one of the protist labs we have done, I really enjoyed finding protists and looking at where they come from and and all the many different ways they look. Protists are eukaryotic microorganisms, and mostly protists are in the kingdom called protista and most of these are unicellular. And lastly protists contain DNA and RNA and have ribosomes.

Overall:
The part that I loved learning the most was Taxonomy and Evolution, I believe that these were the most interesting to me and I learned a lot in these topics. The amount of work that I put in this class can improve, but I hand it almost all of the work assigned. I love biology and I'm excited for the rest of the semester, I also like how we get to express our love to biology through the internet and that we get to share cool stuff. I think that in this class I deserve at least a B of 73%, and I will improve my work habits in class and always hand in everything from now on.

Aptostichus Angelinajolieae, named after Angelina Jolie

Aptostichus angelinajolieae, a species of trapdoor spider named for the actress, is found on coastal dunes of Northern California. Surprisingly, the spider does not have large lips or a hunky husband. 
It's also named this because it's a hatch to hide from prey.