Biology is the study of living organisms, divided into many specialized fields that cover their morphology, physiology, anatomy, behavior, origin, and distribution.
The main point of this project was to get familiarized with some of the biological terms. Our project was to take 25 pictures from the biological vocabulary list and take pictures explaining the term. While also doing this project, we had to use a special object to show proof for each photo.
This bird is an example of Animal Adaptation. Reason because each type of bird has their own adaptation such as their beak size, skin color that helps organisms to survive in their habitat.
In this picture, the bird was most likely looking for worms or small bugs nearby for food.
C3 plants include some of the most important sources of calories all over the world. These crops could benefit from the energy-saving features of C4 photosynthesis because the areas where they are grown are frequently hot and dry.
Ex: Rice is an example that comes from C3 Plant.
Spores are single cells that is able to grow into new organism with the right conditions. An example of a spore is a seed.
Ex: This apple seed from the image will be able to grow into a new organism if planted well with the right conditions.
The filament and anther are the two components that make up the stamen. An anther releases pollen (male reproductive cells). The anther is supported by the filament. A tube that develops down the style and into the ovary after pollen contacts the stigma during fertilization.
Ex: In this Image, the two arrows displays the Anther and the Filament if there was no peddles.
Other plants simply need a short night to bloom. Such plants are known as "long-day" plants. Only after receiving more than 12 hours of light do these begin to bloom. Long-day plants, such asters, coneflowers, lettuce, spinach, and potatoes, make up a large portion of our summertime flowering flowers and garden veggies.
Ex: Picture of lettuce shown in this image is an example of Long Day Plants.
Frond is a leaf that is often compounds leaf, or with many divisions. Most fronds are pinnate and have a feather-like structure.
Ex: This Image is an example of Frond because we could see the leaves that divides it into smaller segments.
The motion of an organism, in whole or in part, in a certain direction in response to an external stimulus. The movement of plant components during growth, where the stimulus's direction determines the response's direction.
Ex: As shown in the image, these flowers have tropism because the plants seem to tilt to the side or turning movement.
When a plant develops unique characteristics to increase its chances of survival, that is called plant adaptation. It takes a long time for adaptations to develop, and they are inheritable, or passed on to offspring. Some of the examples of plant adaptations are Leaf size, Root structure, Poisonous parts, Brightly Colored Flowers, Drought Resistance, etc.
Ex: As we observe from this image, this plant is Brightly Colored, Has poisonous parts, Leaf sizes, etc.
The amniotic egg is an air-breathing egg with extra-embryonic membranes and a shell. These allowed for gas exchange with the surrounding environment while keeping the amniotic embryo in a private pond during development.
Ex: This picture includes a chicken egg. Chicken eggs are amniotic eggs because their embryo resides within the shell during development and hatches once development is through.
Altruism is the selfless concern for others—acting out of a genuine desire to assist others rather than out of a sense of duty, loyalty, or religious obligation. It entails taking action out of concern for the welfare of others. Humans are known to having very good altruistic behavior
Ex: Here is a picture of me setting up food bags with various foods and handing out to people. This shows a act of kindness and positive gratitude toward the world and the social community.
Autotroph is an organism capable of converting basic inorganic elements like carbon dioxide into nutritive organic compounds.
Ex: Since grass grows by using sunlight to make food through a process called photosynthesis, it is an example of an autotroph.
Hydrophilic is prone to combining with, dissolving in, or being submerged in water. For this example, I wanted to use sugar because sugar dissolves in water. Sugars can be linked virtually indefinitely for storage and have the common chemical formula CH2O. And because they are hydrophilic, which allows water molecules to intercalate between them.
Ex:
In my first picture is before I added sugar to water.
The second picture is after I added sugar to water. As you can see, sugar dissolves with water. Which comes to a conclusion that sugar is Hydrophilic.
A glucose polymer called glycogen is found in the majority of human and non-mammalian cells, in microbes, and even in some plants. It is a significant and rapid source of stored glucose. As a supply of glucose for other tissues, it is mostly kept in the liver of vertebrates.
Ex: Starchy vegetables such as potatoes are full of starch. This is one of the healthiest Glycogen-boosing foods. Glycogen also plays an important role in keeping our muscles fueled for exercise.
A plant starts the Calvin-Benson cycle of photosynthesis by fixing CO2 into a molecule with four carbon atoms. The Hatch-Slack route is another name for the C4 pathway. It is one of the three photosynthetic routes that have been identified for carbon fixation in plants.
Ex: As shown in this Image, corn is an example of C4 Plant. Heat units are important to these crops. Since corn and sorghum are essentially tropical grasses, they will perform better and produce more when it is really hot outside.
Spines that decrease water loss and serve as defense can be added to leaves to change their appearance (Also known as modified plants). To give the plant support, some are altered to become tendrils. In order to store water, certain leaves are thick.
Ex: Aloe vera from this picture is an example of Modified Leaf Of Plant because for the purpose of preventing water from evaporating, Aloe vera leaves have a thick, waxy outer covering. In addition, the energy-producing process in aloe vera leaves has been modified. Some plants that thrive in warm regions employ this process, which is known as crassulacean acid metabolism.
Xylem is the part of a plant's vascular system that helps the plant's stem develop its woody component while also transporting water and dissolved nutrients up from the root providing structural support.
Ex: Water and nutrients are transported up to the middle roots of these plants from the Xylem.
Rhizome, also known as creeping rootstalk, is a horizontal underground plant stem that can produce a new plant's roots and shoots. Rhizomes allow plants to persist underground by storing proteins and carbohydrates.
Ex: Ginger is a rhizome that develops just below the soil's surface. The rhizome produces roots from its underside and shoots upwards, up to about three feet above the ground, with green foliage.
Plants have a particular form of tissue called the meristem. It is made up of pluripotent, undifferentiated cells. All of the various tissues and organs that exist in plants can be formed from cells in the meristem. These cells keep dividing until they become differentiated, at which point they stop dividing altogether.
Ex: This image shows meristem of this plant. We can see this arrow points that these cells divide until they become differentiated. However, these cells at some point, stops dividing altogether.
Hydrophobic is tending to repel or fail to mix with water reason because non-polar substances like fat molecules tend to clump up together rather than distributing itself in water because this allows the fat molecules to have minimal contact with water.
Ex: This picture shows that oils are hydrophobic instead of being attracted to water molecules or dissolved to water.
A fungus's mycelium, which resembles a root and is made up of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. Mycelium-based fungi can be found in and on soil as well as many other substrates.
Ex: These mushrooms are examples of mycelium. All mushrooms come from mycelia. Mycelia are most prevalent in fields, forests, and heavily wooded areas.
Phloem is a a plant's vascular system that transports glucose and other metabolic waste products away from the leaves.
Ex: As we can see from this image, the Phloem of this plant produces glucose, metabolic waste away from the leaves.
Flower Ovary is the enlarged basal portion of the pistil where ovules are produced.
Ex: If we peel all the pedals of this flower, we could start to see the Ovary. However, where the arrow is the location where the Ovary is placed. It is in the center root of the flower.
Gibberellin is a term used to describe a set of plant hormones found in seeds, young leaves, and roots. Gibberellins are growth regulators for plants that promote cell elongation and increase plant height. They also have a significant impact on blooming, fruit ripening, stem elongation, and germination.
Ex: This picture shows baby plant in front and more adult plants of the same plant in the back.
Eukaryotes are organisms having cells that contain a nuclear envelope around their nucleus. They are a member of the Eukaryota or Eukarya order of life.
Ex: Humans are examples of Eukaryotes. Meaning they have cells containing cytoskeleton, organelles engirdled by cytoplasm and nucleus wrapped by the nuclear envelope are eukaryotic cells.
As an adaptation to arid environments, some plants developed a carbon fixation mechanism known as crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM photosynthesis, which enables a plant to photosynthesize during the day but only exchange gases at night.
Ex: This picture shows the second most significant tropical fruit, Also known as pineapple. Pineapples are also the most economically lucrative crop and possesses crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), a photosynthetic carbon absorption system with great water-use efficiency.
AP Biology Summer Assignment
We have taken all the information we have learned during this class so far, and created a handwritten one pager to memorize and decorate key terms
I choose to do Alzheimer's Disease in my poster for Endoplasmic Reticulum.
Some properties developed in my Poster:
The main cause of Alzheimer's
Symptoms
Type of cell in disease
Molecular Level
Cellular Level
Organelle involved in disease
Affect of Cellular Disorder on the body
Molecule Variation
Lifestyle factors affect Alzheimer's
Who does Alzheimer's most often affect?
Images comparing normal brain to Alzheimer's Brain
Source Citings
Brainstormed paper before creating poster of Alzheimer's Disease.
Assigned a property of water to depict as a superhero for a comic strip (High Heat of Vaporization)
Create and draw a six to eight-panel comic strip that illustrates and explains the
important role water has in biological systems and its contribution to Earth's fitness for life due
to its polarity and hydrogen bonding.
A description of the property, along with how it is affected by polarity and hydrogen bonding, must be evident to comic strip.