What i Learned From Six Kingdoms Notes

The activity that we did with the six kingdoms was very interesting. I learned about the kingdom I researched and the other five kingdoms. I researched Protista. It's the most diverse kingdom of the six, ranging from parasites to algae. Did you know that Protista can produce sexually? They actually produce spores when the male and females join together. An example would be the Ulva, which reproduce sexually.

I learned some stuff on the other kingdoms too; though I do have some questions that need clearing. My notes say that Plantae are autotrophs, but what about Venus Fly Traps? Don't they capture flies and devour them? It's a question that's been bugging me for a bit.

What I Learned From The Super Duper Cell Websites!

I learned a lot from our activity on Thursday. There was this one fact that astonished me; my body is made up of 100,000,000,000,000 cells! That's more than America's debt! I also learned about Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells. I knew what they were, I just didn't learn their scientific name. There was a diagram on a bacteria, and I learned that there were weird organelles in it, like the flagellum.

I also learned things that fixed my head a little. I first thought that the vacuole stores wastes that the lysosomes carry, but now I know that the vacuole stores food and water for the cell. Why would the cell have to store waste; what was I thinking? I also didn't know that there was another organelle in the animal cell called the "cytoskeleton" It's like the skeleton of the cell and provides shape and support.

Those are a few examples of the vast knowledge that I absorbed out of this activity. I hope we get to do this again sometime.