 Do you know the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction? Well, it is quite simple. Asexual reproduction is when you are able to reproduce with just one living thing. In asexually reproduced things, they are identical to their one parent. However, in sexually reproduced organisms, there are two parents. The two parents reproduce, then the child of the two parents contains both their DNA. The child organism has half of each of the parents DNA. You are not able to choose which half of the DNA you get because it just depends on which DNA cells you get from the parents. That is why some siblings look a lot alike and others look nothing like each other. Say you have two siblings, and you look like neither of them. That is because they got the same half of your parents DNA while you got the other half of it. For example, this is also similar with twins. You are either Faternal twins and you look alike, or you are Identical and you look alike.
 In the last two weeks in science, we dissected 3 different types of animals and body parts. We dissected a lambs eye, a frog, and a squid. In fact, after we dissected the squid, we cooked it and basically ate calamari. Now, the question today is: How would modern day surgery be without the experimenting on other specimens? What do you think about that? How would it be?
Well, in my opinion, it would not help and have a rate that is as accurate as it is today. First of all, you would have no experience whatsoever. Plus, you would only be able to learn from your mistakes you make. That basically means that more people would suffer from surgical issues. With that said, there would be a lower population in the world today. All in all, without experimenting, not as many people would be helped and more would suffer.
 Have you ever thought about how you can see things and how the light passes through your eye? Well, today I am going to explain the process of light passing through to your eye. Everybodys eyes are about an inch in diameter; they each have a cornea and a pupil. But, how does the light pass through?
The light passes through by going through the cornea all the way to the optic nerve of your eyeball. It then goes through the retina, the inside back wall of the eye. Your eye works like a camera, but it is more complex. It is able to turn the image you see upside down in order to see it correctly.
 Yesterday, as you all know, we went to the zoo! It was so much fun. We did great on our website, and our poster looked amazing up by our animal in the reptile house! It was cool to see something that we had made and illustrated put up in the zoo where others could see it.
As you know, we all put in a lot of effort for this zoo project. It took time and dedication to find out all this info about the desert rosy boa, then put it into a website and have a whole page created about it. I am very proud of our group and our work. We had almost all of the info that the zoo had about the desert rosy boa. The only main info that we did not have was the info about whether it was a safe-endangered species. By the way, it is a pretty safe species. All in all, we had most of the info that the zoo had and even more!
 Today I am going to explain how rainbows form. Well, rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomenon that are formed by the reflection of light in water droplets that fall into earth's atmosphere. They result into a spectrum of light that appear in the sky.
The rainbow that shows red on the outer part and violet on the inner side is known as a "primary rainbow". Another type of rainbow is a "double rainbow". This type of rainbow has a second arc that is seen outside of the primary arc. It also has the order of its colors reversed, so red is facing towards the other one in both of the rainbows.
 Last week, I wrote about why the sky is blue. However, I used no research at all. It was only my ideas/thoughts as to why the sky is blue. Today I am going to be talking about the same topic, but I will used scientific research to find out why. Here we go.
One reason that the sky is blue is because of the colors/ reflections that we see. Our eyes, as you may know, see things a certain way depending on the colors that are appearing. Part of it, is also because of scattering. Scattering is when the reflection of something scatters. Instead of all reflecting at the same angle, the angles scatter. This is all I have time for today, but maybe you want to look up the reasons now, so you get all the details.
 Okay, so today I am going to try and explain why the sky is blue. Now, I wasn't allowed to do any research, so if it doesn't make any sense, sorry. FYI, this information is not factual, so don't believe every word I say.
Well, to start off, I think the sky is not really blue, but that it appears blue to us. There are several reasons why. First of all, I think that the sky contains blue light rays, which makes it appear blue to us. One reason that I thought of this, is because scientists have stated that the grass appears green to us because of the green light rays that are in the grass, and that is why it looks green to us. There are a lot more reasons, but that is all the time I have for today. Maybe you should look up later why the sky is actually blue. Then, come back and comment on my post to give me feedback on if I was right or wrong, or even close to the actual reason(s).
 Why are there Temperate Plant fossils found in Antarctica? Well, there are many reasons as to why they are found there. You may be thinking, "how are they found in Antarctica if it's below freezing down there?"
Many scientists have thought that the continents were all once a super-continent called Pangaea; of course, they have proven this theory. Now, some scientists have found plant fossils in Antarctica. Many have found plant fossils in temperate or tropical area; they believe they are able to support the growth of enough plants to produce a bed of coal.
 This quarter, for computers and science, we are working on a zoo project. Yes, I know. Some of you are thinking that this is really cool, but others are saying, "Really?! A zoo project?!" It is actually going better than I thought it would. I think that we will do a pretty good job and have fun.
For this project, my group got the Desert Rosy Boa. There are 4 parts for each animal. I got stuck with the reproduction part. Now, the reproduction part for our animal is difficult because there weren't many categories that fit our animal. That's just the luck of it though. However, I was able to find a lot of information for the categories that did fit the Desert Rosy Boa. All in all, I think that we are going to do a good job and have fun along with it!
 What is the greatest Scientific discovery, in my opinion? Well, that's a good question! Honestly, I think that the greatest discovery is DNA. Why? Well, first of all, without the discovery of DNA, we wouldn't know half of the things we know today. Why is that? As you probably know, DNA is everywhere! It's in you body, plants, structures, etc. If we didn't find out about DNA, we would not have as many great inventions as we do today.
Now, all of this is great, but who do we thank for what we have succeeded with the DNA discovery? Rosalind Franklin, of course! Now there are other people that certainly helped with the discovery, but she helped a tremendous amount, and was eventually acknowledged for her amazing hours she put in to figure out the structure of DNA.
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