Eukaryotes's Boletim

26 de setembro de 2020

Journal entry - Anna Gane

  1. One adaptation that all the observations in your group project have in common
    As “Eukaryotes” is a very wide range of species I don’t believe they have necessarily one adaption that they share in common. However I think we can observe two distinctly within our project. The flowers that we observed are all colourful, which serves to help them populate more of their surrounding area. Their colour aids them in repopulation because bees will be more attracted to the bright colours. Another adaption that you can see is the bugs we’ve found all share a brown colour to them. This is likely because of our mostly urban areas that we were taking photos in. The brown colour will help the insects blend in to their surroundings and thus survive better.

  2. One unique adaptation for one of the observations
    I observed a Canadian creeping thistle. The adaption that this plant has is the thistle on its leaves that surround the flower. This is useful in helping the plant defend itself from herbivores that might try and eat it, as it will be more difficult for herbivores to reach the Canadian thistle.

  3. Pick one observation and locate that species on a phylogenetic tree.
    I chose to locate the virgina creeper(Parthenocissus quinquefolia) on a phylogenetic tree. It falls in the plantae kingdom, under the Vitales Order and belongs to the family vitaceae.

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25 de setembro de 2020

Journal Entry

  1. The theme of our project is Eukaryotes. This theme is not very specific, but it enables us to make observations on whatever we want. However, there is obviously still something in common. Most of the observations are plants and insects. For me, it's because I live in a city and I cannot find many wild animals.
    The plants that we observed most have flowers. These flowers are red, purple, pink...... Those bright colours attract us as observers and pollinators such as bees and butterflies. That's partly why our observations include Bumble Bees and Epicopeia merci--they often show around flowers and help the plants.

  2. One unique adaptation for one of my observations that I want to talk about is Common Morning-Glory, which is a very common species(just like its name). Common Morning-Glory is given its name because its flowers usually only bloom in the morning. When it's latter, the temperature rise and the flowers will close because the plant wants to contain water.
  3. The species that I observed and chose to locate on the phylogenetic tree using OneZoom was Camellia hongkongensis. It is a member of the family of Theaceae. It belongs to the Order Ericales and the Genus: Camellia.
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24 de setembro de 2020

Journal Entry

The species is the common sulphur or Colias Philodice under kingdom animalia, phylum arthropoda, class insecta, order lepidoptera, family Pieridae, subfamily Coliadinae. It is located beside Colias grumi and Colias flaveo1.

There are no common phenotypic adaptations between the species we have observed, however, all the species are multicellular organisms. Common sulphur developed pale yellow wings with black edges in order to disguise themselves from possible predators such as Parasitoid wasp2. They can blend in well with light colour flowers and mislead the predators with the pattern on their wings.

Reference:

  1. OneZoom. Available from https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Colias_weberbaueri=3136670?img=best_any&anim=flight#x925,y287,w0.6250 Accessed 23 September 2020.
  2. Encyclopedia of Life. Available from http://eol.org. Accessed 23 September 2020.
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23 de setembro de 2020

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