Toothpick Fish

The yellow fish are starting to be eaten and stand out. I am picking toothpicks from the cup and seeing what color the alleles would make my fish. As I was picking, the yellow fish were being eaten and taken away. A yellow fish could be made from a yellow and yellow "allele." If I picked a two red "alleles" it was red, a red and yellow "allele" the fish was orange, and any color with a green allele was green. The first time I picked the alleles, my population of fish went down one fish. The reason why this occurred was because I picked two yellow alleles which made a yellow fish. This is called an homozygous recessive, because I picked two recessive alleles. Through the next two generations I lost two more yellow fish and then a major event happened. All of the green fish could now not camouflage. Since the green fish was the most popular, that would mean that the population would now decrease a lot. I lost six fish which now left me with a total of 3 fish all together. If other fish could have camouflaged and not it would impact them and all the people around them.

The fish dying effects many people and animals in the ocean. The predators would not have a lot of food. They may get hungry and a lot of populations will decrease. This will also be bad for other people around them like humans. This will also effect the population of the fish because they can not reproduce if they are all dead. The only fish that can reproduce are the two red fish and the orange fish. There would be a lot more fish if the disaster about the green fish did not happen. They were the most popular fish. Also, it would be a lot different if there were a different amount of fish and the colors are different. This is the toothpick fish lab and how it impacts the ocean world if it were to happen.

New Species in Africa

Many scientists went on a field trip to Ethiopia and found what they thought they never would. It was a new species of an animal which people are calling an "African Wolf." Many people first thought that it was a golden jackal. They than realized that it had a lighter skin caoting and it was more thin. After days of research trying to find out what this species could be, they started to compare it to the Egyptian Jackal. This new wolf is a relative of the Holartic Grey Wolf which lives in Europe and Asia. The wolf that was found is rarely found in Ethiopia. It was proven it was not an Ethiopian Wolf because the new wolf splits from grey wolves later than Ethiopian Wolves. This wolf is also a relative of the Indian Wolf and the Himalayan Wolf. That is what the new African Wolf is and who it is related and compared to.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/new-african-wolf-species-discovered-110128.html

One Year Later

We all remember the devastating earthquake a year ago that struck Haiti. We were all wondering how they would recover from the disaster. They have recovered and are starting to make country better than ever. One of the main reasons how they are starting their comeback is a program called THREAD. THREAD basically means The Haitian Redevelopment Directive. This company will fix many problems which include poverty and trash. They will stop trash by paying Haiti's citizens to recycle. It will also provide "skilled jobs" for people in Haiti. Although it is going to cost thousands of dollars to help Haiti they believe that it can be done. The plan to rebuild Haiti will work but it is going to take a while before everything is back to normal in Haiti.

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/turning-haiti-around-economic-recovery-may-hang-by-a-thread-0904/

This is a picture I took at my friends house. It is a great example of mutualism. Mutualism is when both of the species benifit from their interactions. In this picture there is poison ivy on a tree. The reason why the poison ivy benifits is because it has a place to live. The tree is helped because it is protected by other animals. For example, if birds wanted to build a nest they would not build it in this tree because of poison ivy. That is just one example of mutualism in the world.

This is a tree in South Brunswick. It is a biotic figure which means that it is living. Another example of a biotic figure is grass, animals, plants, and many other things. There is also abiotic figures which are non-living. Examples of these are sunlight, temperature, clouds, and many other things.

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Reptiles!

I was surrounded by reptiles as I was sitting in my chair. Reptiles are an extremly cool group of animals to learn about. A few things that all reptiles have in common is that they are cold blooded, they shed, and they have scales. Some kinds of reptiles are turtles, snakes, lizards, and alligators. The first animal that we were shown was a tourtise, or a kind of turtle. It was a very slow mover and had a giant shell. It also had stubby legs that were covered with scales. The next animal that we were shown was a snake. It was a long phython, that gently wrapped around the womens arms. The color of ot was brown, and it was small and skinny. After that, we were shown two different types of lizards. The first one was a long one with spikes on top and very sharp teeth. The next one was a lot different because it was a legless lizard that looked like a snake. By far, my favorite animal was a tourtise. All of the animals that I saw today tought me a lot more about reptiles, and how they live.