Origin of life /Darwin's theory.

 W.A.L.T Understand the meaning of the origin of life and how we evolved from a single living organism that came from and asteroid. 

Manaia ,TK and I made this mind map about how life first began and then linked all our ideas up to the tree of life and our common ancestors.We learnt about how an asteroid came to earth and brought Amino Acids and sugars.We learnt that those Acids and sugars mixed with earths chemistry and created the first single cell living organism.That cell is our common ancestor its at the start of the tree of life!!!

I enjoy learning about our ancestors and learning about the cells in our body.I enjoy learning about the tree of life and our common ancestors!!! I cant wait for the next lesson.

Thought flow: This makes me think about all the other asteroids /meteorites that have Amino acids and sugars  and other minerals and have they hit other planets... is there other life somewhere?

What do you know about the tree of life?

Explaining genomics.

W.A.L.T Understand the meaning of genomics and DNA.

we had an expert that came up from Auckland to teach us all about genomics.We learnt about the cells in our body and how each cell has two,one is from your dad and one is from your mum.We learnt what DNA stands for and it stands for Deoxiribo Nucleic Acid.We talked about how we evolved and how we are 99.9% identical from everyone else.

What made me think hard while learning about genomics was when we were learning about  how different we are from each other and what we evolved from. 

What do you know about genomics??