Saturday, July 24, 2010


























Exoskeleton. This is a moth I found at work. Most bugs have an exoskeleton. Moths or butterflies always have 2 antennas and an exoskeleton which is why I chose this picture.




















Echinoderm. Echinoderms are slow moving, spiny, marine creatures. This is a picture of a starfish I found at the beach. Starfish have a very brittle and tentacle like body. They also have tentacle like suctioned cup bodies. This is why I chose this picture to represent an echinoderm.













Arthropod. That tiny little thing in the middle of the picture is an ant I found near one of my plants in the backyard. Ants are considered arthropods because they have jointed limbs and cuticles. They also have exoskeletons, which is another characteristic an ant has.









Amylase. The picture is of my brothers tongue. The tongue produces saliva which is the reason I took this picture. Amylase is an enzyme in the saliva that helps hydrolize starches and sugar.
















C4 Plant. Cactuses are types of c4 plants. I took this picture at work, because I work at a greenhouse. C4 plants have that characteristic of living in a better enviroment where its very dry and sunny. Cactuses show a perfect example of them because they normally live in an enviroment where it is not rainy and wet.


















Angiosperm. This picture of a lilly I took in my backyard represents angiosperm. Lillys are a flowering plant. That means that they produce seeds inside of them.

























Basidiomycete. This mushroom was taken at the front porch near the freshman building at school. Mushrooms are basidiomycetes because they are a type of fungus. They belong to the fungal phylum.



















Autotroph. This is my AP bio Coleus plant. Coleus's are autotrophs since they get food through photosynthesis like all the other plants and flowers. They dont eat other organisms or substances. They are also the producers in a food chain.

















Bryophyte. I took this picture near rocks and grass at the garden in our school. In the picture, you see green stuff, and that would be called moss. It is another name for moss, liverwort, or hornwort.








Chitin. In the picture, there is a spidercrab. I took this picture at the aquarium a couple of weeks ago. Spidercrabs represent the term Chitin. Chitin is the polysaccharide found in creatures that have an exoskeleton.

1 comment:

  1. Great examples! Fungus is a kingdom, not a ohylum FYI. The Basidiomycetes tend to me the mushroom-looking fungi.

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