Project summary
In this project, we were all given a partner and supposed to research an organism and find out how the evolved over time and what they look like today. MY partner, Hunter and I chose to research the Cow and we first had to find its earliest ancestor and several transitional species. With this information, we had to explain how natural and artificial selection played into the evolutionary steps. After, my partner and I presented this to the class, we both worked well together and did a good job. The only thing that went poorly was the lack of time we had to work on this project. Two peaks for this project were having the freedom to choose a partner and learning all of the cows ancestors. Two pits for this project would be, time management and sometimes not being as cooperative as I should. Those are two things that I need to work on.
Key terms
Common Ancestor- All species share a common descent, in evolutionary biology, a group of organisms share a common descent.
The cow was first related to the ox, this shows how they were first related.
Adaptation-An inherited characteristic that increases an organisms survival
The cows had to adapt to different environment, changing their traits.
Natural selection- The process in which the organisms that are best suited for the environment survive and reproduce most successfully.
Most cows are very suited for their environment, not harsh.
survival of the fittest-The individuals most suited to their environment survive.
Helped the cows survive against predators.
Reflection
For this project, My partner and I split up the work half and half and also presented it this way. In the beginning we didn't know what to research on and got a little behind. With my leadership I Suggested the cow and it went well after that. I thought that my partner and I worked really well together with very little problems and got all of our work done. On some of the parts i struggled to get some of the facts that i need for doing my work and Hunter had helped me find them. We both did and even amount of slides and did everything that we needed to do.
This is the website to our Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VK-SdEHQThvddq45WOKf1G9mIZ9i1zW71Gom-kw4J-E/edit#slide=id.p
In this project, we were all given a partner and supposed to research an organism and find out how the evolved over time and what they look like today. MY partner, Hunter and I chose to research the Cow and we first had to find its earliest ancestor and several transitional species. With this information, we had to explain how natural and artificial selection played into the evolutionary steps. After, my partner and I presented this to the class, we both worked well together and did a good job. The only thing that went poorly was the lack of time we had to work on this project. Two peaks for this project were having the freedom to choose a partner and learning all of the cows ancestors. Two pits for this project would be, time management and sometimes not being as cooperative as I should. Those are two things that I need to work on.
Key terms
Common Ancestor- All species share a common descent, in evolutionary biology, a group of organisms share a common descent.
The cow was first related to the ox, this shows how they were first related.
Adaptation-An inherited characteristic that increases an organisms survival
The cows had to adapt to different environment, changing their traits.
Natural selection- The process in which the organisms that are best suited for the environment survive and reproduce most successfully.
Most cows are very suited for their environment, not harsh.
survival of the fittest-The individuals most suited to their environment survive.
Helped the cows survive against predators.
Reflection
For this project, My partner and I split up the work half and half and also presented it this way. In the beginning we didn't know what to research on and got a little behind. With my leadership I Suggested the cow and it went well after that. I thought that my partner and I worked really well together with very little problems and got all of our work done. On some of the parts i struggled to get some of the facts that i need for doing my work and Hunter had helped me find them. We both did and even amount of slides and did everything that we needed to do.
This is the website to our Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VK-SdEHQThvddq45WOKf1G9mIZ9i1zW71Gom-kw4J-E/edit#slide=id.p