ROAR 5-4-3-2-1 #6

HELLO THERE! ^^
Here's the next few pages. I'm so sleepy right now but it's still early...so I'll try to finish this up quickly.....*yawns.. ^^ can't wait till I go to bed.. HAHA


The New Science Of Evo Devo : Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Sean B. Carroll

5.Comments:
*I was suprised because today I learned some insects have more than 4 wings, it follows the Williston's law. And it's the evolution of wing numbers. Like a Primitive aquatic nymph has more than 8 wings...there pently more and they compare it to each insect to see the difference and how they evolved.
*Now are the Sipders tales: the more adaptations of the arthropods gills. Some of their innovations is the book lungs, tracheal spiracle, and spinnerets. They are all structures that are homologs of the pedipalps which are the mouth parts and walking legs. It related to the adaptations of the arthropods gill branches.
*Next is the series of genes that help involve modern insects like butterflies and thier wings, flies, and the hindwings insects. The way it is the Ultrabithorax, it's a protien that regulates the circuity of insects and it command the binding and the switching of genes of wings in insects.
*Fish fins to fingers... (wierd huhs?) The evolution of the tetrapod hand into wings. it;s been seen and recorded in old devonian fossils that they have common positions and bones located.
*Then from the wings that are created, they have phalanges, radius, and humerus like our human fingers and arm and so on other animals. That's the evolving of limbs for the new styles. Then after there are a few pages that I didn't understand a bit so I didn't write about. Sorry, but this part is kind of too high leveled for a freshman like me.... ^^

4.Questions:
*How is the wings of animals can be seen related to a human arm? I mean like how do they decide that it's related, it could be another bone..
*What is the devonians?
*How is Ultraithorax create? Do human have them as well , maybe in some of our body?
*Is switching really important to the way an organism turn out? like a gene or something?

3.Vocabulary:
*Innovation: the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods.
*Modularity: the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system.
*Reiterate: to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.

2.Literary Terms:
*Allusion: A reference was made to the Williston's law and the Pat Shipman. It was cited in some direct qoutes.
*Anmorphotism? : The sentence that refered that the bat and fish had some human characteristic.

1.Overview:
* It's the insects section, and here we are learnign about the genes that creat their different wings. From fish fins to insects we get to the wings of birds, and bat how they then relate to our human arms. Isn't that interesting? It's like a connection to all living animals. I'm sorry it's a short summary but it's really what all of them relate by and plus I'm so sleepy I think I'm going to drop any second.. HAHAHA... goodnightt....(: