Wednesday, April 2, 2008

viruses

I think viruses are not alive. They are so basic they cannot be alive. Also they do not carry any life functions. That is why I think they are non living

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Assignment for Mr.Z

From the article Team Races to Catalog Every Species on Earth their are some benefits, and challenges to discovering and classifiying each one. One benefit in classifying all the species in the world is cures for sicknesses, diseases, viruses, and cancer. Another benefit is to gain knowledge about new things. Also some species may be used as food. The challenges to finding all these animal is the number of animals is tremendous. Also species are being classified around the number of fifteen thousand a year. The number of species going extinct is more than the number of species being found.
Technology helps in finding species in ways like organizing ideas with computer and capturing bugs easier and faster.