Genomics - Term 3 Week 5 (during Lockdown)

 We have been learning lots of Genomics stuff this week! 

We read a text about 'The Fragile Web of Life' and made a list of new words we learnt, and wrote a summary in our own words.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURyGlOksR0&t=87s

Link to transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-hqNC56zU5g-UzfefWU8_I3m7qyjNWjDviqw5IqFcbY/edit?usp=sharing

Words from transcript:

•  Vegetation -All plants

• Proliferate - spread

• Enabled - allowed, afforded

• Microbes - teeny tiny organisms like bacteria

•  Adversaries - enemies, foes. 

•  Majority - the biggest section

•  Irrevsible - can’t go back, can’t undo it.

• Pulsating - vibrating, moving, alive.

• Eco systems - a group of organisms that live together and rely on each other for survival

• Pollinators - animals that spread pollen, like bees.

• Magnitude - importance

• Breeding - making babies 

•  Ensured - make sure. 100% gonna happen

Summary of ideas: 

Paragraph one -  organisms/living things came out of the water. Life emerged from the ocean nearly 3 and a half billion years ago.The Earth was covered in plants (vegetation). Different species of animals/organisms evolved over millions of years in different habitats. 

Paragraph two - Animals that are predators have less babies, less often, (E.g. humans mostly have one baby at a time) because they will survive. Animals that are prey, have more babies/eggs, more often, because their babies/eggs will get eaten by predators. For example, glow worms lay eggs in batches of  30. When the first egg hatches, that worm eats its siblings as its first food source.

Paragraph three - Animals live in ecosystems, which is like a web or team where all the organisms rely on each other to survive. Some animals eat each other  (predator and prey), some trees are homes for animals, some fungi rot the leaves that fall from trees and feed nutrients back into the ground.

Paragraph four - Humans are destroying the planet through pollution, cutting down trees (deforestation) and putting bad gases into the air. We will have lots of animals/species either by killing them or destroying their habitats. Scientists predict that within 30 years, ⅕ of all species on Earth will be extinct.

Paragraph five/six  - In a rush to improve our own lives, humans have damaged the planet forever. Species that go extinct can never be brought back to life.

Next we learnt how the first animals came out of the water and adapted to being on land.

Here is Eh Htoo's work.

We learnt about adaptations of different animals and how they help them to survive. 

Students then had to choose an animal to study for themselves.

Here is Eh Htoo's study of a tasmanian devil. 

On Friday we started learning about Early humans. We watched this Youtube video and then sorted out the information that goes with each type of Early human.

Here is our final product -