HOMEWORK: read chapter 3 in unit 18 (taking notes is recommended)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The new unit packet is out! There also is a project due next week on Tuesday. You can find the project on page 3-4 in the unit packet.

*The Endangered Species Commercial is due in two weeks (Tuesday)

In other news, today I successfully ate some fried chicken throughout the span of class without Mr. Paek noticing (or, at least, caring enough to take away). It was a successful day.

There will be a lab on thu. and fri. featuring leeches so prepare yourself!

Animal of The Day: (a new daily thing) the animal of the day today is the Hag-fish.

type: agnatha, jawless fish

other features: the fish, when disturbed, sprays a slime which reacts with water, hardening into a jell-like substance. It's pretty cool, you can check out the Hag-fish in action at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2EOP3ohnE

notes: Taxonomy-def.: naming and classifying

Taxonomy groups:

-Kingdom: broadest grouping

-phylum

-class

-order

-family

-genus

-species: most specific

(those are groupings based on similarities of animals like: vertebrate vs. invertebrate, type of animal, ancestors, etc.)

"KPCOFGS" (Koo-pa-ka-fo-gus) is one way Mr. Paek remembers the order of the taxonomy groups in order of broadest to most specific.

Evolutionary relationships: based on biochemical similarities.

Binomial Nomenclature def.: 2 names comprised of genus and species.

Ex: Homo sapien (must be italicized, second word is lowercase)

Kingdoms:

-archaebacteria- comprised of prokaryotic cells

-protista- comprised of unicellular eukaryotic, heteretrophic, or autotrophic organisms.

-fungi- comprised of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms (like mushrooms and yeast)

-plantae- comprised of plants

-animalia- comprised of animals

-eubacteria- comprised of single cell organisms

And finally we ended the day with a movie about large bugs, we ended at a part where the host was trying to prove that there were very large dragon flies at one point but they died of leaving only the smaller ones. he did this by trying to prove that the large flies were not used to the sudden decrease in percentage of air in the atmosphere (thanks to developing fungi which released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere) and therefore died of from not having enough energy to gather food and reproduce, thus, leaving the smaller dragon flies to survive (assuming, that's where he was going with his study).

And that was bio for Feb. 14th 2011 (and i apologize for any misspellings)!

Oh and before i forget, the next scriber will be Su.