Ap Bio scavenger hunt 2

The alligator my brother is holding is an excellent form of an ectotherm. Which is an animal,  tends to be reptilian, which has a very negligible ability to control heat loss and metabolic production. By using environmental heat it can cope with these losses and have the necessary heat needed for the metabolic reactions.

 This bug that we found outside my house has an exoskeleton. An exoskeleton's  only purpose is to protect and shield the insect from being destroyed. Most species of insects have an exoskeleton but some don't. Crustaceans also have exoskeletons. Without one these animals wouldn't be able to function naturally.

 Many of the plants that live on level with the water tend to not be light dependent plants otherwise they would all die. To make it possible for these plants to live they need to use the calvin cycle. This cycle is the light absent reaction that allows the plants to live. By using ATP as a converter it makes the reactions very much so possible. To  create enough energy it also relies on the other sugars in the plant to make the reaction work.

 The plants at the base are also autotrophs, which involve being able to produce it's own organic compounds. Humans on the other hand are heterotrophs which can't but I'll explain that later on in the summer. The calvin cycle, when there isn't any sun, goes hand in hand with the ability to produce it's own organic compound by utilizing the carbon available and sugars and water.

My dog is a great example of an endotherm. An endotherm is an animal that is able to produce  and conserve it's own body heat. Endotherms can also be called warm-blooded animals. Heat loss is a big problem for small mammals that are endotherms because if they lose to much they will go into a hyperthermic state and could potentially die. To conserve heat and energy sleeping slows down the process to about two-thirds of the normal amount of heat produced.


The Hot Zone has been a thrilling book and one book that I'm actually excited for during this sumer. I love the ideas that are put out in the book like the fact that Ebola is over four billion years old and since viruses don't work with any of our classifications for life on Earth maybe they aren't from here. The author frustrates me though in how he never tells you whether the person that he is describing like Musoke lives or not until the very end of that chapter. I am glad I get to read this book because while I'm at NYLF I can bring up these questions.