blog 16

Reflect on your semester and year in biology What were your successes? What were your failures?What did you learn that you will never forget?

During this semester,since I wasnt here during first semester I assumed it was an easy class because I was doing pretty well in my other biology class however was wrong. The teaching methods used in this classs was clearly different. The teacher, unlike other teachers doesnt collect projects and notebooks right away but given a due date without constant reminders, we were expected to do it and turn it in like a responsible student. Thankfully, one of the lessons I learned in this class was time management, I was able to turn in assignments on time and learned throughout the way in a different method. Such as the abiotic and biotic factors. By actually going outside the classroom and looking for those factors I was  able to remember the lesson more clearly than I would have from reading from the book. However, there were times when I wasn't able to remember to do the test or the projects, it would affect my grades. After the few times, I would remind myself to go on moodle at least once a week to look for quizes that are due, and start on them early giving me an oppurtunity to see whats on the quiz and a better grade when I take the quiz again.

blog 15

Compare two of the organisms that we have dissected Discuss at least 2 similarities and 3 differences

In class, two organisms we dissected before are the fish and the squid. One difference is that squids are related to cephlapods which don't have a skeleton structure at all while a fish does that a skeletion structure. They have an endoskeleton(bones) and have scales outside. Also on the external appeareance fish mainly have fins while squids do not.However both do have eyes ans in their interior atanomy they both similarily have gills, brain, kidney,stomach, and a heart. Both also have a marine like lifestyle and reproduce by the eggs developed in them proving that they are not mammals. Another difference that can be displayed externally are the tentacles on their arms squids use to move and the fins fishes use to swim.