Showing posts with label New Unit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Unit. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

All about Kingdoms!

Today, we started off class by turning in our Cornell Note on 18.3 that were due yesterday. We then moved on by talking about the Animal of the day #2. Today's animal was...the...STAR NOSED MOLE! Its class is a mammal.  It had an odd looking nose, which made it unique.
After that, we took notes on Kingdoms:

6 Kingdom System:

-As things evolve they get more complex
-They share a common ancestor
-"Protista"-they don;t know if they should call it a   kindom.







Three Domain System:
-3 Domains: Bacteria, Archea, and Eukarya.
-A more current taxonomic arrangement.
-Based on comparisons of tRNA sequences.












Archeabacteria and Eubacteria: (REVIEW)
-Formally the kingdom Monera
-Single-celled prokaryotic
 -Archeabacteria
    -No pepridoglycan
    -Found in harsh environments
 -Eubacteria
    -Peptidoglycan in cell wall
    -Most bacteria we encounter

Kingdom "Protista":
-Eukaryotic
-Most unicellular, some are multicellular
-Heterotrophic or autotrophic (photosynthetic)
-Very diverse kingdom
     (amoeba, paramecium, algae, euglena)

Kigdom Fungi:
-Eukaryotic
-Single or multicellular
-Cell wall made of chitin
-Decomposers/Heterotrophs
     (mushrooms, yeast, mold)

Kingdom Plantae:
-Eukaryotic
-Multicellular
-Autotrophic
- Cell Wall composed of cellulose

Kingdom Animalia:
-Eukaryotic
-Multicellular
-Heterotrophic
-No cell wall

After all those notes, we started the Shark Key. It is located on pages 9-12 in the UP. On page 12, we have to make our own biological key in both the fish and the leaves!

HOMEWORK:
*Finish Shark UP (9-12)
*Invert Profile, Due: 2/22
*Read Section 26.1
*TV add Due: 2/28


Calie is our next scribe!

Monday, February 14, 2011

NEW UNIT (:

Today, we started a new unit about the animals, but first, Mrs. Stein gave us grade reports and we saw what we got on the Evolution Test. She told us that we got a good head start on the new semester! After that we had a POP QUIZ on 18.1 **she sort of told us there would be one.** 18.1 was about classifying species and the order of diversity. Once we took the quiz, we took notes on the Animal Of The Day #1. We took notes on a hagfish, which is a slimy, eel like fish that has survived for millions of years. Then, Mrs. Stein introduced to us the Profile Project, where we are going to be invertabrates, an animal without a backbone, and we will create a profile. The project can be found on UP 3. Then, the learning came, and we took notes (:



TAXONOMY
*science of organizing and classifying organisms
*based on evolutionary relationships and biochemical and DNA similarities.

*~*~*CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM *~*~*

KINGDOM
PHYLUM
CLASS
ORDER

FAMILY
GENUS
SPECIES


*~*~*WAYS TO HELP YOU REMEMBER THE CLASSIFICATION*~*~*



King Philip Cuts Open Five Green Snakes

Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach

King Phylum Class Ordered the Family Genius to SHUT-UP!



NAMING SYSTEMS:
*binomial nomenclature-genus and species name
*uses Latin
*developed by Carolus Linnaeus
-example: Homo Sapiens



*~*~*~*~HOMEWORK*~*~*~*~*~

~read 18.3 and cornell notes due tomorrow

~TV AD due 2/28
~PROFILE due 2/22

THE NEXT SCRIBE WILL BE.........Anastasia :)