Marine Worm Mini Poster
Function: Sea slugs play an important role in their ecosystems as both predator and prey, and they are also used in biomedical research to study topics such as cancer and nerve regeneration. The appearance of these animals depends on their species. Most of them have cerata on their body.
Description: For this project we learned about Sea slugs for about a week or two. Then we watched videos and wrote notes to help us understand and to help us take a quiz/test. Then we started on the mini poster drawing, coloring, and writing three fun facts.
Sea Slug: Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary time have either completely lost their shells, or have seemingly lost their shells due to having a greatly reduced or internal shell. The name "sea slug" is most often applied to nudibranchs, as well as to a paraphyletic set of other marine gastropods without obvious shells
Gastropod: The gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda. This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and from land.
Reflection: Two things I did good in this project was the drawing. I feel like I did good on the drawing because it shows everything labeled and its very colorful. Another thing I did well is just learning about these types of cells. Two things I had trouble with was the work because I was far behind so I had to catch up on things and the second thing was the background colors.