Plants vs. Gurus...

  

     
     Hello fellow bloggers! The Science Gurus here! Today, we will be talking about plants. The topics we will be talking about were actually our 4th quarter CEOs for our Science class. Well here are the topics we reported on! Starting with the two mischievous guys...  

     Heyy! What's up bloggers? So we will start  today's plant diversity with division Pteridophyta. We reported on this topic together. The Division Pteridophyta, also known as the ferns, is a group made of vascular plants. You know, plants that can deliver water and nutrients to their leaves and parts. One whole leaf is called a frond. The little leaflets on them are called pinnae. It doesn't produce seeds but spores. Their spores are called sori (plural). The sori help ferns make new fern colonies. Some people are allergic to spores. That's why be careful, you might get a sorEYE. AHEHE. Sorry, just a little joke :D This topic was kind of hard to research on since information on it is only a little. Anyways, here is a picture of the fern, Nephrolepis exaltata. It is good for ornamental use:

                                                                                                                        

 

                                                                                         - Fernando and John

     Next, we'll talk about Monocotyledones. It is a group of plants that only has one cotyledon. Cotyledon meaning only one seed leaf. They have roots, stems, and fruits and flowers. Or in short they have a complete system. Some examples are coconut trees, and orchids. Some families are Orchid family, the True Grasses, and the Palm family. But ah, I know its corny but, be careful in the forests cause you might catch a coconut on your head and wake up in the hospital! It was easy to research on this topic and hard at the same time because monocotyledones have topics which have a lot of information on but some don't. This is an orchid. It's so cool. 

 

                                                                                                                   - Ryuu

     The last we'll be talking about is my topic, Division Cycadophyta. Cycadophyta is a division composed of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves. They are dioecious plants that are only grown in the subtropical and tropical parts of the world, and they only have one subgroup: Class Cycadopsida. This topic was kind of hard to research on since cycads have hard information to find on the net. Here is an example of a cycad:

                                                                                                               - Hotaru

HOPE YOU LIKED TODAY'S TALK ON PLANTS. SEE YOU NEXT TIME! :)

Picture References:
1) http://www.cryleaf.com/fs/images/ferns.11.jpg
2) http://www.pinoy-entrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/orchid.jpg
3) http://zonedenial.com/Zamia.jp

Deep in the Forests....

     Heyy fellow bloggers! Today, we're gonna talk about animals. Last quarter, we talked about different kinds of animals as our CEO (Creative Expansive Output) for science. We're gonna say a few kinds of animals that we talked about...

    One kind of animals we talked about is the class Aves or the birds. These are animals composed of feathers, beaks, wings, and scaly feet. I was the one who reported this topic. Their wings are specially made for flight. There are many families of the class Aves, actually more than 20. Though, the oldest kind of bird is the Archaeopteryx. I prepared for this CEO through researching the net and making powerpoints and handouts. Here is an example of a bird, the pigeon:

                                                                                                                        - Hotaru

   

     Another kind of animal we talked about are the mollusks or from the phylum, Mollusca. They have a hard shell that covers their body but their main body is soft. They are bilaterally symmetrical. They eat through using what they call radula that scrapes off nutrients from rocks and others. They move by using a muscular foot while marine mollusks move through jet propulsion. I prepared for this project by researching and I studied about the subject from many sources. It was hard to research because it is hard to find information about mollusks. Here is an example of a mollusk, the common garden snail:

 

                                                                                                                        - Fernando

     The next topic we are going to talk about are the vertebrates, fish. There are basically 3 classes of fishes. Class Agnatha, Chondricthyes, and Osteichthyes. The Agnathans are jawless fish and they are paraphyletic as such as the lamprey. The class Osteichthyes on the other hand, are made up of fishes with a bony skeleton and they are the class with the largest class of vertebrates today and they are primatively cold-blooded such as the rayfish. Finally, the class Chondricthyes are jawed fishes with cartilages with tooth-like scales called denticles, such as the shark. I prepared for this project by researching through books and the internet. It was hard to prepare because every topic I researched on, it only gave a few information. Here are example of a fish, the lamprey:

                                                                                                                           - Ryuu

     Finally, here's the last topic we will talk about, the flatworms. They come from the phylum, Platyhelminthes. They are made up of 3 layers. They are, of course, dersoventrally flattened. They are bilaterally symmetrical. They reproduce both ways: asexual and sexual. Most flatworms are parasitic. I prepared for this topic by researching from different sources. This was quite hard for me to research because flatworms are hard to find in the net. Here is an example, the Pseudoceros dimidiatus:

                                                                                                                            - John

Picture references: 

  1) http://www.birding.in/images/Birds/rock_pigeon.jpg

  2) http://www.northcoastgardening.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/OrganicSnailandSlugControlHowtoKillSnail_BB1A/GardenSnail.jpg

  3) http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/37/37E72D5F-CF38-4446-9B1B-7077F296823E/Presentation.Large/River-lamprey.jpg

  4) http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Pseudoceros_dimidiatus.jpg/180px-Pseudoceros_dimidiatus.jpg

Dear Fellow People of the World...

Heyy! The science gurus here :D  Who are we? Well I'm John and my 3 other guru friends are Hotaru, Ryuu, and Fernando. We created this blog to share our experiences we had in our science class headed by our professor, Sir Rye or commonly known as the urban guru. Join us in our world of Science and explorations!