3rd blogpost

These 2 weeks I have continued to research my project in more depth and started to look and see if they have books about it.

1.I have learned that not so many people now about my project and thats why not that much change has happened in trying to help it, and thats a big problem.
2. I have learned that I when I am really passionate in something I will really get distracted in it and my full attention will be on the thing.
3.I have had some stepbacks on how I will be showing my project, but I have solved it by doing a powerpoint.
4.The next steps in my process is to gather more information and continue working on my plan and strt working on my powerpoint.
5. I can use what I have learned to help me save things that I can in my community like a creek or even a park.

Geological timeline reflection

Geological timeline reflection

3 major events in earths history is one when the asteroid hit earth that killed of the dinosaurs, second is when the first organism ever stepped on to land, the last third important thing is when the earth got covered in snow and ice. The scale of earths history is very huge and we humans have only lived in a blink of a eye in earths history. We humans have had so much impact on earth because we have destroyed a lot of natural habitats and used a lot of natural resources. 

Unit 8 reflection

Unit 8 reflection

In this unit we learned about how we know and what evidence we have of evolution in our species and also other species. We got to learn the different time periods and eras that lead up to our era and what happened in each for us to be able to live on earth. I really want to learn more about the different ears that happened before us and what would have happened if like the asteroid that hit the dinosaurs didn't hit earth, and would we still be here then. 

 Unit 7 Reflection
In our unit 7 we learned how to be more asservative, and I have done a lot of work to do this like practice being more reasonable and how to compromise with people.

 

2nd blog post

2nd blog post

        For the past weeks I have done a lot of research on my project, mostly researching and looking at the Nasa project called CORAL. I have also started to think on what I should be writing for my plan on how to save the corals.

1. I have learned a lot about my project including how long the corals will last if we dont do anything about trying to help it. And how the Nasa project CORAL is going and what information they are getting. 

2. I have learned about myself that I am very stubborn because i will go searching for something and I will leave knowing it. Like when I need to have a specific information I will only stop researching it when I have found the information I needed.

3.I have actually not run into any problems so far.

4. My next steps are too continue researching and start working on my plan which will be about what we can do to save the coral reefs.

5. What I have learned and what I will be doing is also something that can be related to communities because communities also have to make plans on how to make the world better.

Hunger games lab

Hunger games lab

1.In this lab we did a simulation of what goes on in nature when different species get food and it showed how some species grew and their population became larger while other became smaller. And this stimulated how natural selection works.

2. The phenotype that was best at capturing food was the pincher, and this species was the best at capturing the most food because it had a greater and more efficient way of picking up the food and the food was also the right size for it. 

3. The population did evolve and I know this because the frequency of the "A" allele went from .50 to .17 and the frequency of the "a" went from .50 to .83. So this showed that the pinchers got more food and had more offsprings with the "a" allele and the stumpys with the "A" allele didn't get as much food ans started to die out. 

4. The events in this lab that were not random was the picking of who to mate with while the random was what allele would be picked from the mating and what offspring it would create. Another random event was how the food would be layed out and how much food there would be. 

5. If the food was another size like bigger like the size between a ping pong ball and a baseball ball the stumpys would have a greater advantage over the knucklers because the food would be too  big for them to pickup. So the stumpys population would go up, the knucklers population would go down and the pinchers would probably stay at a population and i might move just a little bit. 

6. If there was not a incomplete dominance in this lab then there would probably be only mating between the pichers to pinchers and the stumpys to stupmys and that would cause the different allele groups to separate and they would create two different populations on as stumpys and one as the pinchers. Another case would be that the stumpys would have a hard time picking up the food causing the pinchers to be the only ones in the population or the other way.

7. The relationships between natural selection and evolution is that the natural selection favors on certain phenotypes causing only some to be able to pass on their alleles and some alleles would die of and that would cause a difference in populations and in the future evolution.

8. Some strategies that individuals or groups adopted where quickness on getting the food or/and mating with a specific group that would cause their offspring to be the best possible. This would have caused the best alleles to be greater but the individuals or groups that would not get as much food would try to adopt the other groups strategies and their population might grow but then would be out numbered by the other groups.

9. In evolution the different alleles evolves and this creates a evolution in the population. Natural selection works on the genotypes by making only the individuals with the good alleles keep their genotype but over time it could change the genotype and also the phenotype if a population has competition with another population. Because then they would need to change to be able to win and pass on their alleles. In nature many different species would adapt to the strategies of different species or alleles to get a greater advantage. And a example would be like a rabbit population and in the population they would all get new strategies to be able to mate with the best.

10. A question that I have is have humans have to compete with another species to win and pass on our alleles and win over the other species to get where we are now. And If another species would have won would they be the at the place where we are and be the on of the strongest species on earth.

Bird beak analysis

 

Hypothesis (claim)	Evidence of this occurring	Explanation of this evidence
Individuals with better traits leave more offsprings	The bird with better beak picked up more food and got more offsprings	This happened because it was easier for them to get more food
Populations begin to look more like the winners	The best bird beak gets their genes passed on and wins they then win over the other birds with other beaks	The best beak gets passed on because they can survive and provide food for themselves and their offsprings

Conclusion

In this lab we asked the question, if natural selection occurs in a population, how do changes in selective pressures affect the evolution of that species. We found that during the changes of the climate some birds didn't survive as well in that new climate as other birds. Evidence for this is that before the climate the spoon beak bird got more food but after the climate change the binder clip got more food and had more offsprings. This data supports our data because we said that the birds with the biggest beaks would get more food which happened.

While our data was supported by our data, that the big beaked birds would get more food there could have been errors due to miscounting on the food items. Which could have caused one bird to get more food then the others when it didn't and could have messed up all the data. Another mistake could have been that we didnt place the food evenly spread out on the table. And this could have caused another bird to have a easier way to get more food then the others and the data would not have been fair. Due to these errors, in future experiments we could have counted twice the number of food items and spread the food out more evenly.

This lab was done to demonstrate how a small change in climate or anything else could effect a species greatly. From this lab I learned that we shouldn't disturb other species which helps me understand the concept of different habitats and species. Based on my experience from this lab I could put this into many situations for example when you are out hiking or just out in the forest or ocean.