The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
I believe that this story teaches a very important moral! In my opinion, the moral of the story is that you can't always trust everyone, even people you are very close to. This is because if you have to much trust in everyone, people can trick you and take advantage of you! In addition, certain things can get into the wrong hands of a person who may not be trustworthy or safe!
The Four Oxen and the Lion
I believe that the moral of the story is to always work together! Especially in a serious situation such as this. This is because if you do not work together and rebel against each other, that you can get very negative outcomes. For example, in this short story, the oxen decide to use there own strategies to attempt to escape from being the lion's lunch, but in the end they all end up dying. However, if they had listened to each others ideas, and worked together, they may have not all been fooled by the lion and themselves, and had a chance at living.
The Fisher and the Little Fish
In this story, I believe that the Maxim can be interpreted in many different ways! However, the way I look at it is that if you want the best for yourself, you have to work hard for it! In addition, it takes much time and patience to receive what is best for you. For instance, it takes much time and patience to find a good college/education!
The Crow and the Pitcher
So far, this has been my favorite fable that I have read. To meet, it send out a very important moral/ message. This message is to never lose hope and faith. Don't ever give up on anything, especially yourself! Even when you think that you've tried your best and you have don't everything you could do, you should keep pushing forward and trying harder. This also leads into trying your best. Trying your best is one of the best things that you can possibly do for yourself! Nothing bad with come out of trying to succeed in something. So always have faith and never give up!
The Fox and the Goat
I think that this maxim shows that you should think before you act and think about what you're going to say before you say it. In the story, the goat believed the fox about the drought so the goat jumped into the well, then the fox followed by jumping the the goats back and jumping out. They goat was silly to jump into the well if he had yet to hear about the drought!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Ask a Geneticist:
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=69
While I was reading these two extremely factual articles, I learned many new things about genetics! One of my favorite things that I learned was how similar humans are to chimps! Humans and chimps are over 98% the same! Can you believe that!? Humans and chimps contain of basically the same genes! Chimps are most likely made up of 2 human chromosomes or vice versa. This blew my mind to think about how similar we are to hairy, un-mannerly chimps! Another thing that i found very shocking was that goldfish and toucans have more chromosomes than humans! Goldfish have 94 chromosomes, toucans have 106 chromosomes and only have 46 chromosomes! I would think that humans would have more chromosomes than any other human being but I have been proven wrong! The biggest difference between humans and chimps are the amount of proteins in the chimps brain to the humans brain. Obviously, the humans brain produce more proteins than the chimps.
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=184
Another interesting thing that I have learned from these two articles was that the human genome split into separate chromosomes rather than being one long strand. This depends on how each organisms reproduces. Some organisms reproduce asexually, meaning that they will split in half and produce off spring that way. Or another way to produce offspring is to produce sexually which is when 2 organisms combine to create a or multiple babies. To add onto my knowledge about chromosomes, i learned that all humans have 46 chromosomes and that 23 must come from the mother and 23 must come from the father. However, if a mutation occurs, the number of chromosomes may vary. I found these articles very informative and they helped me clear up my understanding of genomes and chromosomes!:)
While I was reading these two extremely factual articles, I learned many new things about genetics! One of my favorite things that I learned was how similar humans are to chimps! Humans and chimps are over 98% the same! Can you believe that!? Humans and chimps contain of basically the same genes! Chimps are most likely made up of 2 human chromosomes or vice versa. This blew my mind to think about how similar we are to hairy, un-mannerly chimps! Another thing that i found very shocking was that goldfish and toucans have more chromosomes than humans! Goldfish have 94 chromosomes, toucans have 106 chromosomes and only have 46 chromosomes! I would think that humans would have more chromosomes than any other human being but I have been proven wrong! The biggest difference between humans and chimps are the amount of proteins in the chimps brain to the humans brain. Obviously, the humans brain produce more proteins than the chimps.
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=184
Another interesting thing that I have learned from these two articles was that the human genome split into separate chromosomes rather than being one long strand. This depends on how each organisms reproduces. Some organisms reproduce asexually, meaning that they will split in half and produce off spring that way. Or another way to produce offspring is to produce sexually which is when 2 organisms combine to create a or multiple babies. To add onto my knowledge about chromosomes, i learned that all humans have 46 chromosomes and that 23 must come from the mother and 23 must come from the father. However, if a mutation occurs, the number of chromosomes may vary. I found these articles very informative and they helped me clear up my understanding of genomes and chromosomes!:)
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