Earth Owner Manuel

Earth owner Manuel:

Watch the entire Earth: The Owner’s Manual video (link attached) and choose one aspect of the video that describes something that you did not know prior to watching the video, or something that you found interesting. Choose a topic unique to your classmates that post before you. In your post, incorporate some of the terms you learned by reading Chapter 36. Include at least 2-3 terms from the chapter in your post. Bold those terms in your post.

virus

Part A

In this section of the discussion board, you will begin to investigate the diversity of life in viruses, protists, and fungi. Respond to both Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1: Viruses—Is a virus a cell? Is it living? Of what components is a virus composed? Viruses are thought to “hijack” the cellular machinery of their prey. What is the goal of this action?

Part 2: Protists – You will find that there is a lot of diversity within this group of organisms. There are protists that are heterotrophs and protists that are autotrophs, unicellular, and multicellular, one type that has glass that impregnates their cell walls, to name a few. For your work on this topic, please select a unique Protist and describe some features of the organism you select (2-3 features that are unique to this organism). An example of a poor descriptive feature would be that the organism is a eukaryote because that is true of all protists.

Part B

For the second portion of this discussion board, you can do one of three things.

You can discuss a (unique) role of fungi in society and nature OR
Choose one group of fungi and discuss what makes them unique OR
Discuss one-way fungi interact with another organism in a parasitic or mutualistic way.