Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day

when we walked in the door we were to pick up the unit 8 packet, animal of the day and a calendar of the upcoming assignments 
next we took a reading check quiz on 18.1
after we learned about a new profile project which is due on the 22nd
then we took notes on the animal of the day which is a Hagfish in the Agantha class
next we took a few notes on...
Classifying and Animal Diversity 
- based on
evolutionary relationships
biochemical and DNA similarities 
- Taxa means a group
Naming Systems
- binomial nomenclature (genius and species name)
- developed by Carolus Linngeus
- examples: Homo sapin, Felis domesticus 
  *remember to underline when writing*

lastly we worked on an exercise involving categorizing aliens into groups based on what they look like.. more to come tomorrow
Homework: 
- read 18.3 cornelle notes (due tomorrow)
- profile (due 2/22)
- TV ad (due 2/28)
Olivia is our next scribe

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