Journal entry - Anna Gane

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.

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.

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.