tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73691036979017490322024-02-02T07:25:02.044-08:00Rita's Bio BlogNicola Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227566185896349347noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-74447555467819054572016-09-04T19:31:00.000-07:002016-09-04T19:31:21.543-07:00Mimicry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A recent New Zealand study compared the size, shape and pigmentation of hundreds of leaves of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pseudowintera axillaris</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (horopito, also known as the New Zealand pepper tree) and small </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alseuosmia macrophylla</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">toropapa) plants, and found a match. Over a third of the leaves of the two species cannot be statistically distinguished from one another. Toropapa were possibly eaten by moa before the arrival of humans quickly decimated the moa population. Unless the plants are flowering or fruiting, the only fast way to tell them apart is to taste a leaf. Horopito leaves a pungent, hot peppery taste and a numb tongue when the leaf is chewed, while toropapa is highly palatable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="Small toropapa (left) and horopito seedling (right)" height="352" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dRm5vBdi1O2Ua6RHqXcBLShTZP_tujPzj2HcOP5tGLo78fnkBSThvI-wE_8s3oO6jb6Haw_k_OoonF4ZWnRSHkRcZWWgpvKljkg7lb70uk1w5McczY5NGr2TVFcB9hjcXl5QAXEl" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="624" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Name and describe the relationship between </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pseudowintera axillaris</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alseuosmia macrophylla. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discuss the adaptive advantages and disadvantages of the relationship to the two species of New Zealand flora, including any survival strategies they employ.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The type of relationship that the Horopito and Toropara shows is mimicry. For this example the toropapa is mimicing the horopito. As it said on the paragraph, the Toropapa is tasty and the horopito tastes like hot pepper, the toropapa mimics the horopito because it is defenseless and needs something to protect it from its predators, like the moa. This type of mimicry is called Batesian Mimicry. Batesian mimicry is when a harmless organism's appearance mimics a dangerous organism's appeance, like the example of the Toropapa and the Horopito. For the Toropito it is helpful so that its predator can think it's the peppery taste plant and just moves on. It might also be harmful to them because the humans might think that it is the Toropapa and just cuts it off.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-33757227895183589532016-08-24T17:45:00.000-07:002016-08-24T17:45:31.237-07:00Re-write<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In class today we were given a paragraph to type down also a list of words to rewrite that paragraph using those list of words.<br />
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Here is the actual paragraph:<br />
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A rabbit is active at dawn and dusk. It's normal activity is recorded in a lab for 6 days, then recorded in constant darkness for another 10 days. There is still a pattern to the rabbit's behavior but it starts 20 minutes later each day.<br />
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Zeitgeber<br />
Entrained<br />
Biological Clock<br />
Endogenous<br />
Exogenous<br />
Circadean<br />
Circatidal<br />
Phase shift<br />
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Nocturnal<br />
Diurnal<br />
Crepuscular<br />
Biorhythm<br />
Free-running<br />
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My paragraph:<br />
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A rabbit has a particular time for its activity. It is active at dawn and dusk, which is called <b>crepuscular.</b> It can't be <b>nocturnal </b>or <b>diurnal</b> since it is active both dawn and dusk (sunrise and sunset). Its normal <b>exogenous</b> <b>biorhythm</b> was recorded for 6 days with the <b>zeitgeber</b> present which was <b>entraining</b> the rhythm.<br />
When the rabbit's activity was recorded in darkness, the <b>zeitgeber</b> was removed and the activity pattern was changed. The <b>phase shift</b> happened when the <b>zeitgeber</b> was removed and its activity started 20 minutes later each day. This means that the biorhythm is <b>Circadean </b>in the <b>period of </b>24 hours, not <b>Circatidal</b> because rabbits don't live at the beach or the ocean. LOL.<br />
Because the <b>zeitgeber</b> was removed and its activity pattern still happened, it is <b>endogenous, </b>which means that the rabbit must have it's own <b>biological clock. </b>As the <b>zeitgeber</b> was removed, <b>free-running</b> occurred, meaning that the rabbit's <b>endogenous biological rhythm </b>took over and made its own timing.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-36035530150156123402016-07-27T17:49:00.000-07:002016-07-27T17:49:32.388-07:00Debating Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today our Biology class did some debating on Euthanasia. I was in the team going against the idea of euthanasia. We were Blue Team. Here is the document that has our main points and rebuttle.<br />
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><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FIhb7PRX8khnDA2chYCo4SCUdffs7EAJMLxlp0Sjjzw/pub">Click here to see our argument plan</a><br />
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Thank you</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-54079570607139718642016-05-05T04:10:00.000-07:002016-05-05T04:10:13.643-07:00Class of 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today was a very productive day in Biology.<br />
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Students became teachers and the teacher became a student. We were all given different topics to learn on our own. And after we learn for a good 20 minutes, we all gather around in one table and teach each what we learnt about. After we teach each other about our lessons, we give them our activities that we came up with. Me and BobbiGrace did Kahoot, Cherub made us a crossword and Lana was to define it and draw a diagram about it.<br />
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Cherub: Tropisms and Growth Responses<br />
Tropisms are directional growth responses to external stimuli. It is directional growth because it grows either towards or away the stimuli. Tropisms are identified according to the stimulus involved, e.g. photo- (light), gravi- (gravity), hydro- (water), and are identified as positive or negative. I'll use sunlight as an example. When a plant is growing outside under the sunlight, the plant grows towards the sunlight, this is called POSITIVE PHOTOTROPISM.<br />
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BobbiGrace: Investigating Photo-tropism<br />
Photo-tropism is when a plant is growing towards the light. Auxins promote cell elongation and are inactivated by light. But when a stem is exposed to light, auxin becomes unequally disturbed either side of the stem. When a stem is exposed to sunlight on the left, the auxin that is produced in the tip of the shoot, goes down on the right side. This causes the right side to elongate faster than the side that is exposed to sunlight. As this happens the plant bends towards the sun which is called positive PHOTOtropism.<br />
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Lana: Investigating Gravitropism<br />
Auxin appears to have a role in the gravitropism response but it has a different effect depending on the presence of other plant growth regulators. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-84069089273036772172016-05-03T19:54:00.000-07:002016-05-05T04:09:22.195-07:00Learning about Migration !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Migration is a journey that is often over long distances, often a year or once in a lifetime.<br />
Homing is a short trip home after searching for food or mates.<br />
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Animals can navigate when migrating & homing through different ways.<br />
Including: Visual Cues/Landscape, Star Compass, Magnetic and Sun Compass.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newkidscenter.com/images/10415715/Statue_of_Liberty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="irc_mi i0WYY2G8gPHw-pQOPx8XEepE" src="http://www.newkidscenter.com/images/10415715/Statue_of_Liberty.jpg" height="150" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="200" /></a>- Landmarks, mountains, buildings, roads, forest, streams etc..<br />
- Birds can use motorway etc. while migrating<br />
- Digger wasp used cones as as visual where 'home' was.<br />
- Change of land (development deforestation) may harm navigation & migration<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Star Compass:</span></b><br />
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Using star for navigation.<br />
Scientists put birds in a conservatory/star dome to see if it were really the stars that the birds were using to navigate. So one night the they put stars up in the conservatory lab. They noticed that the birds were hopping to the left side of their cages. The next time they swapped the stars around and the birds were hopping to the right side of their cages, which gave the scientists the idea that birds really do use stars at night to migrate. Turning out lights at night could help the birds see the stars clearly for them to be able to migrate.<br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQsGcua49CMG2iz5_lpWQEZe8TeYUi5yxyTpkOyKCDds_Npkyi4sw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for Magnetic" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQsGcua49CMG2iz5_lpWQEZe8TeYUi5yxyTpkOyKCDds_Npkyi4sw" data-sz="f" jsaction="load:str.tbn" name="Wwl3EaN6ENieuM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQsGcua49CMG2iz5_lpWQEZe8TeYUi5yxyTpkOyKCDds_Npkyi4sw" style="height: 157px; margin-top: 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>Some animals (eg. pigeons & salmons) have been shown to sense & navigate using the earth's magnetic field. Experiments with magnets on pigeons beaks showed their navigation became confused. So scientist put birds in a cage and had this magnetic technology that you can just switch on and off. Whenever it is switched on the birds would either fly to the left or to the right. When they switched the technology off the birds were shown to just be flying around and not knowing where they're flying to. Scientists also tried test where the magnets that attracted them to the earth's magnetic field were and so they attached some magnets onto their beaks and the birds were shown to be confused about where they're supposed to be flying. And they also found some in their backs.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Sun Compass:</span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/756752main_20130620-m2.9flare-orig_full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="irc_mi i0WYY2G8gPHw-pQOPx8XEepE" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/756752main_20130620-m2.9flare-orig_full.jpg" height="200" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="200" /></a>- Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.<br />
- Bees and the waggle dance !<br />
Number of waggle = distance.<br />
Angle of middle = angle to the sun<br />
Bees uses the waggle dance to talk to each other about where their food is. So the number of waggle that the bees do is the distance where the food is away from them. And the angle of the middle is the angle of where the food is to the sun. Just confusing myself right there! haha<br />
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So we made posters about all of this and here is mine:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Introducing the NZ God-wit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you can see the map on the left shows the distance and stops that the God-wits migrate to and from. Also the map shows how it gets to their destination. The God-wits are a large group of ling billed, long legged, bar-tailed birds. Their long bills allows them probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and mollusks. When god-wits prepare to migrate, they double their weight as the season changes and days get shorter. Because they are not needed for the journey, their stomach, liver and also kidney shrinks. As the journey begins, along the way many birds grow bigger flight muscles. Along the way, many of them stop to rest or to feed. Flying in formation helps them in a way so that they can use the minimum energy along the journey, also by travelling in higher air that is less dense. Some birds are led by experienced birds, and others just migrate on their own for the first time. This is called innate. Innate is a behavior that is not taught, it's in their genes, they all do it the same way and they all do it at the same time. So birds that migrate on its own is an example of innate behavior.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-69108512813255640072016-04-04T23:48:00.001-07:002016-04-06T00:15:33.128-07:00Class of 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday there were only three of us. Bobbi, Lana and Me. Also with Miss Wells.<br />
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First, we did some learning about PHOTOtropism in the roots. And then she allowed us to work on our assessment and just try finish it up for a grade. Land and Bobbi did their assessment, but I and Miss Wells did our own work on the board. Miss Wells would draw pictures on the board and then I would have to caption it. Here it is:<br />
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Just read the caption so you'll know what I learnt that day.<br />
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<span id="goog_1163873410"></span><span id="goog_1163873411"></span>Thank you for reading my blog ๐๐ Have a good day/night</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-74879455827829575762016-04-04T03:56:00.000-07:002016-04-04T03:56:06.472-07:00Auxin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On the last day of March, we had a special visitor. She just came into our class and sat in the back and just observed how we use our netbooks and how useful it is to our learning. We were so grateful as a class that she learnt something from our little lessons and I'm pretty sure she had fun. But anyways let me get to what I have to actually talk about.<br />
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So on Thursday, our first task was shared to us by our Biology teacher. The class of 8 was divided into two groups, 3 boys and 5 girls. We had to watch a video first and then answer the questions that were shared to us by our Biology teacher. When we finish that task we had to make a presentation out of dough.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-30774060486206930482016-03-21T16:09:00.002-07:002016-03-21T16:09:58.976-07:00Attracting Mates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pheromones.<br />
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Pheromones is a chemical that plants and animals releases to change the behaviour of animals around them.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-89220057277717130092016-03-21T16:08:00.001-07:002016-03-21T16:10:27.085-07:00Silly Sentences for Innate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My silly sentence:<br />
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"My offspring were raised away by every single member in my family so it can be 100 times better."<br />
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My Biology class were told to write our own silly sentence to try and remember what Innate means.<br />
Innate means that a behaviour or something wasn't practised or learnt. It's just in their genes. For example some birds, when they are born they know which directions to fly. Like if we take away those birds from its parents the birds will already know which way to fly. So it was born with it.<br />
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Innate = Born with it, not practised.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-26825564085717553412016-03-14T16:48:00.000-07:002016-03-14T16:50:28.274-07:00Biology Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank God we are still alive :)</div>
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Biology today was fun. </div>
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We learnt new prefixes, we played games to remember those prefixes.</div>
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Chemo - chemicals (food)</div>
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Gravi - gravity</div>
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Hydro - water</div>
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Thermo - temperature</div>
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Thigmo - touch</div>
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Photo - light</div>
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Our teacher gave us activities to do on our own, and then we have to draw our own little animal thingy and name it ourselves. We came up with our own responses for it.</div>
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So Fiu Wazowski is a type of creature that has only one eye and it lights up every night. It loves the light.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-40838655824930888832016-03-13T18:40:00.000-07:002016-03-13T18:50:04.103-07:00Competition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today was cool, cause we had to compete against each other for who has the best presentation. lols<br />
Okay here is our Presentation.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-14084832387090842042016-03-09T14:27:00.001-08:002016-03-13T18:51:17.512-07:00Reflection Blog Post about Homeostasis Assessment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First of all I would like to thank the Heavenly Father for guiding all of us in our assessment. It was pretty hard because I didn't really get it. Compared to last year it was harder. lols. even though it was a research. The hardest bit about the assessment was trying to find link it all together and put the diabete type into it. Easiest part was obviously defining what Homeostasis is.<br />
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2 tips for the Y13 class next year:</div>
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That's all I've got to say for now. :) </div>
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Laters.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-15108031545622003702016-02-29T15:51:00.002-08:002016-03-13T18:50:48.670-07:00Assessment Time in Biology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yaaay! We have started our assessment about Homeostasis already! Tuesday, typical day. The day started with a bit of a shower for nature. It's still spitting while I'm typing. Looking outside the field looks really empty without the students out there playing. Anyways, back to Biology class. So the way that our Biology teacher, Miss Wells, makes us do our assessment is that she gives 20 minutes to write or research all we can about our assessment and then after 20 minutes we have a break to either play a game or just carry on with our assessment. We just finished our break playing a random picking name and then we either win something or do something silly. By silly I mean do the chicken dance or play an imaginary sport. LOL. I stopped typing so now we just finished playing Kahoot.it :) about general knowledge. And that's about it for Biology :) I had fun. Thank You to Miss Wells for a very productive day of learning. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-31947963801885019302016-02-21T23:57:00.000-08:002016-02-21T23:57:12.874-08:00Reliever Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today our Biology teacher was not at school, so we had a reliever. To me it's not good for my actual teacher to not be there. Because if my actual teacher is not there, I don't do my work. But I'm trying to learn independently knowing that one day I will have to learn that way in the future. So that means I didn't do any work today! SORRY Miss Wells! :(<br />
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Anyways, I'll update my blog and try to recapture what we did last Thursday. :) We also had a reliever last Thursday, but I did half of my work :)<br />
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What did we do last Thursday? Ohh right!<br />
We had to look at pictures of students from last year going on a trip to Tongariro. Then we had read the little description Miss Wells wrote under all the pictures. After reading that we were led to a site to learn either osmoregulation or thermoregulation. I chose to learn about osmoregulation. Osmoregulation is the controlling of water content in the body. This is controlled to protect cells by avoiding too much water entering or leaving them. Water content is controlled by water loss from:<br />
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<li>the lungs when we exhale</li>
<li>the skin by sweating</li>
<li>the body, in urine produced by the kidneys</li>
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Then after learning about the choice we chose, we had to complete a survey testing us to see if we actually learnt something. Also we had to do some work in our Biozone, but I didn't do it because I didn't get it so I did all the online stuff. :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-13753627749480125002016-02-10T15:18:00.000-08:002016-03-13T18:51:42.508-07:00Task - Treatment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is what we were doing today in class. Our amazing Biology teacher made a fake hospital admission chart, and we had to fill out the chat as you can see. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535728430124116664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369103697901749032.post-91641241896489228582016-02-08T15:09:00.001-08:002016-02-08T15:09:14.324-08:00Introduction to Biology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Hi! My name is Rita Fusitu'a. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I am a Year 13 student currently attending Tamaki College. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This year I take Biology as one of my options considering my future plans in University. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The first thing that we are supposed to do in class is to talk about what we know about Diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Just to let you know that I haven't fully learnt anything about Diabetes, so I'm deeply sorry if anything I mention below is wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> This is just the start of our Biology class and we had to do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There are two types of Diabetes that I know of. Type 1 and Type 2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Type 1 is the type of Diabete that people are born with and have to live the rest their lives with. </span>Type 2 is when some people just eats too much sugar, their diet is not on point, and they just eat too much, most above their forties.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">That's all I know about Diabetes. I'm sure some of it is wrong but at least I tried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Thank You for wasting your time reading this post :) </span></div>
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