Science

There were many projects that I enjoyed and put a lot of effort into this year in Science. One of them was the Designer Species project. This project required students to modify a creature that already exist to fit in perfectly to different scenario planets. My partner and I decided to modify a flying gecko to fit into the jungle scenario with poisonous plants covering the ground.

We made several creative changes such as expanding the flaps of skin around it’s hands and decreasing its overall size to allow this gecko to soar up to four hundred feet. This way it could escape from its predator, the snake, and could move around easily without any contact with the poisonous ground. Once the modifications were made, we named our species the Jenabel Gecko.

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Extra Story

Once upon a time...there was a lonely cell. His name was Bob. Bob decided that he loved himself so much so he made a clone, splitting himself into two identical cells. A strange process mitosis, that is, but he was proud of his clone and decided to make more. But this time, something strange happened. Bob’s clone had a different shape, more of a square. It had hard walls and strange green organelles inside of it.

Bob’s two clones met and instantly gained interest, becoming the greatest of friends. The first one, more similar to Bob with a unformed, softer shape was named Animalia. The second one, with a squarish shape, was named Plantae. They were the founders of the animal and plant kingdoms. With time to come, they would see how much their great great great great…..children would rely on each other.

These cells split and made more cells like them, filling the oceans with diversity and life. Multicelled organisms developed and continued to reproduce; mutations occurred and created new phylums, classes, orders, families, genus, and species until organisms of every shape, size, and color roamed this earth.

And that was how life became so diverse, starting from the very first living organism.