Do these series of links to develop a sense of how taxonomy works. Open a ‘Add a Response’ in SBI3C group’s courseware – record all answers and notes there. The assignment will be call ‘Taxonomy.
Launch the interactive and record your score – put it in your response!!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/classifying-life.html
Launch the interactive and complete it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/family/index.html
** Personal Research and Notes
Now look at the 6 kingdoms of living things – you will need to find what makes each kingdom unique – put your notes into your response. Research what makes a mammal different from a protist or a bacteria. How is a fungi different from a plant? Give a short list of points that single out each of the kingdoms.
** Food for thought… to be commented on below…
Where does viruses fit? Do they fit in one of the kingdoms? Are they ‘alive’ by the definition of what makes something ‘living’?
Scientists organize all of Earth’s life forms into a hierarchy that begins with kingdom and works down into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
Total score in the classifying life is 33 points.
Because each organism has arisen from a single 3.8 billion year old ancester we’re all part of one big family.
Understanding the evolutionary relationships between the members of this family helps us understand how we, and all the diverse life forms around us, have come to be.
This was for the ‘Food for Thought’ comments not your score. Your score and notes were to go in the courseware. Please follow instructions.
Scientists organize all of Earth’s life forms into a hierarchy that begins with kingdom and works down into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
Total score in the classifying life is 33 points.
Because each organism has arisen from a single 3.8 billion year old ancester we’re all part of one big family.
Understanding the evolutionary relationships between the members of this family helps us understand how we, and all the diverse life forms around us, have come to be.
Your score and notes were to go in the courseware. Please follow instructions. This was for the ‘Food for Thought’ comments not your score.
I believe that viruses are not living things, I believe that the virus is just like a chemical and the cell is just like a chemical they are both doing there own things, the virus is doing nothing and the cell is working to produce new cells. But once the virus hits the cell it becomes active and starts to multiply its self sending the virus all over the body. In the inactive stage of the virus it would not fit into one of the kingdoms, but once the virus becomes active it would fit in between the Plantae and the Animalia because it is going through a mitosis stage producing more viruses to spread over the body, but a virus can be found in either a plant or an animal so it fits in between.
Viruses contain some of the structures and exhibit some of the activities that are common to organic life. Viruses are entirely composed of a single strand of genetic information encased within a protein capsule. As I did some research I found out that viruses were biologically “alive”, but does that mean there living? Viruses are not living things. Viruses are complicated assemblies of molecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates, but they are unable to do anything until they enter a living cell. Without cells, viruses can’t multiply.