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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / September 2004Help With Biology Homework
Hello, This week in my Bio Lab class, our instructor had us bring in pond water and look at it through a microscope. Our assignment is to pick out one of the small bugs and try to research and find out exactly what kind it is and write a little paper on it. My question for you guys is where the heck do i even begin to find out what my bug might be. It was very small (mabey 2mm) and when looked at through a microscope it look long, thin, and its body was mostly green and kinda sectioned off. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Chris > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Thanks, > Chris Part of science, indeed, part of life, is figuring out how to do research. So, now that we have the internet at our disposal, start there. Go to Google images and type in algae. You'll find a lot of pictures and those will lead to a lot of information. Or, Google (the web) for "pond water". -- Lynn Silver Talk to your teacher; that is why they are there. Do your own homework; that is why you are there. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Thanks, > Chris  SignatureLarry D. Farrell, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology Idaho State University >Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >microscope it look long, thin, and its body was mostly green and kinda >sectioned off. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Some would suggest Google. For many purposes, I find mind-boggling numbers of hits that are totally irrelevant or unhelpful, and take mind-boggling amounts of time to load before I can decide. I'd probably start by going to the reference section of the library and looking through some of the big picture books in the nature section. SignatureIrony: "Small businesses want relief from the flood of spam clogging their in-boxes, but they fear a proposed national 'Do Not Spam' registry will make it impossible to use e-mail as a marketing tool." http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/11/10/newscolumn6.html >>Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >start by going to the reference section of the library and looking >through some of the big picture books in the nature section. A simple Google on "pong water organisms" produce an interesting result. The second item on the list was "A simple guide to small and microscopic pond life - main page ". Now wouldn't that be an interesting place to begin? Homework is assigned to make you learn how to do things yourself, including doing a little research. Sometimes people need a gentle push in the right direction, sometimes a good stiff kick in the pants. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > microscope it look long, thin, and its body was mostly green and kinda > sectioned off. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Head for your school library, in the biology section, look for a book that includes information on algae (since it's green, that means it has chlorophyll which makes it an alga of some sort) and go through the pictures. It's a very good idea to draw what uyou see under the microscope - not only will that help you in the library, but it will look good in your report. Have fun with it - it was working with microscopes that got me ito this game.... Lesley Robertson http://www.beijerinck.bt.tudelft.nl >>Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Lesley Robertson > http://www.beijerinck.bt.tudelft.nl Yep, I agree with what everyone has said here... do a google search for common phrases that might bring things up, as others have suggested, and take a look in the library for some books with lots of pics of various things that you'd find in pond water. Lesley's suggesting is good too. You can use some deductive reasoning to try to narrow it down a little bit - i.e. the part about it being green and therefore containing chlorophyll... that should narrow it down a bit. But it could also be a plant or plant fragment! Have fun exploring all the things you find there... there's plenty of weird and wonderfull thigns to find. Scott. |
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