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Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

Primary root - originates in seed embryo, first to emerge in germination
Branches to form lateral roots

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

Root - anchors vascular plant to the soil, absorbs minerals/water, stores carbs

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

Roots depend on photosynthates from the shoot system, and the shoot system depends on water/minerals from the roots

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

3 basic organs: roots, stems, leaves → root system and shoot system

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

a great way to start off this next chapter,
"Are plants computers?"
I mean....... sure............

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

YELLS
this egg is honestly my only motivation to keep reading
except I'm getting impatient so I'm gonna make each line of my notes a separate post ZDLFKFJ

Posted in Share a random fact about yourself Posted 5 years ago

Alexis back at it again with the art freebs

I... used to play pokemon TCG competitively ADFLKFJ
my favorite events were pre-releases, where they give you a bunch of booster packs from the newest set, and then you have to make a makeshift deck out of whatever you get, and then fight other people tournament-style
I played long tournaments at conventions and frequently beat up everyone in my age division ;3c

characters here

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

the next unit is on plants, which is arguably equally as boring

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

I mean some of it is interesting, but goddamn... the way ya'll wrote it took like fifty years to read...... could have broken it up into more chapters smh

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

ALSO I'm now done with this unit on evolution and biodiversity, and let me just say (with complete bias) that this was the worst unit in this entire textbook so far, 2/10 would not read again

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

done with this chapter, now I gotta revise my notes and condense it into a nice summary...

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

Homo sapiens - ancestors originated in Africa, less pronounced brow, more slender
Spread outside of Africa in waves → Asia, then Europe, then Australia
H. floresiensis - shorter height and smaller brain than H. sapiens, but lived at the same time
If it’s a new hominin species, then the “shrinkage” may be due to island isolation - natural selection favors smaller brain size to reduce energy consumption

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

I'm reminded of the time that I took a course in life science pedagogy, where the final project was to make a presentation and teach the class about an assigned topic. smh was unlucky enough to get assigned the topic I was least familiar with on that list....... neanderthals
DEFINITELY BS'd THAT ASSIGNMENT IN ONE NIGHT........ turns out I'm a real convincing teacher

Posted in it's literally just biology Posted 5 years ago

Neanderthals - thick-boned, prominent brow, larger brain than humans, buried their dead, made hunting tools
Humans and neanderthals shared a common ancestor (not directly descended)
Some gene flow between humans and neanderthals