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Adaptions

1.        The cold is not always just not fun to be in, but it also can harm your body by taking it out of homeostasis. Some of the ways it does this is by shivering or producing goosebumps. This is negative because the body knows that outside is cold, and it knows that it needs to keep it on the outside, so it creates little goosebumps. This is your body fighting to bring it back to an average temperature and bring it back to homeostasis. Goosebumps would be the result of a short-term adaption. 2.        The first is going to focus on a short-term adaption , and for this one I would have to say goosebumps again. Goosebumps also occur when you are scared another way for your body to bring you back to homeostasis.   Second is , Facultative adaption . For this one, it would be kind of like above how your body knows to turn on an internal heater whenever it is cold outside. You do not have to make it change t...
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Language Blog

Part 1 Part one of this assignment I did at Universal Studios with my family. I was not a loud to talk at least with using words or using different forms of language. Even though it was kind of difficult, it was not impossible. They kept trying to ask my deep questions that were a little more than a nod of the head or just a simple laugh. They were actually quite impossible to answer so I just glared at them instead. They did keep trying to ask me questions and different forms of questions to try and get me to crack. I was in a small group of people however it was one person that kept talking to me and trying to crack me and yes, he definitely controlled the conversation, he was the one changing the topics, and he asked all of the questions while I ‘tried’ to answer. I was not really excluded too much also, it was almost like I got more attention since they felt the need to crack me. My partner definitely had the power for this fifteen minutes. Like I said he lead all the que...
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Piltdown Hoax

In 1912 a man named Charles Dawson was digging in a gravel pit in a town in England called Piltdown. He claimed that he had found a piece of an ancient human skull, it was a jaw to be more exact. It was not just a normal human skull though, the shape appeared to come from a monkey and then the teeth were ground down like it was a human. All of the scientists thought that they had found another branch but instead, they found out that it was all a hoax. The teether were ground down by humans. All of the facts led back to Charles Dawson.                 This is something that the scientist thought was a new discovery and new facts but instead, just because someone wanted the glory for making a new discovery he decided to cheat the system and make the new discovery himself, hand make it. History does not work like that. This is the only thing that scientists have seen of someone changing ancient artifacts. ...
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Homology vs. Analogy

Dogs and humans both have a homologous trait, the dogs leg and a humans arm. Dogs legs are used for walking, where humans do not tend to use their arms for walking. Humans use their arms for all kinds of different things like carrying heavy things and just about anything you can think of since your arms and hands are almost one in the same, you can use them for writing, typing, art or endless possibilities. Dogs legs have the main purpose of walking. Humans can get down on all fours, but it is not as comfortable or natural as a dog. likewise for a dog, they can stand on two legs but its not very natural for them, that would be kind of cute though! however they do have almost the same structure and the same amount of bones as each other. A butterfly and a bat have analogous traits. Both of these creatures have wings and they both use them to fly. I do think a common ancestor could have had wings as well which were passed all the way down to these two very different species.
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