Lab 7 - Echinoderms and Chordates

Rules:
  1. Search for and then submit in the comment box below an article which relates to this lab's topic that has both an interesting and exciting story.
  2. Include with your submission:  your name, your section, the title of the article and the URL link to it's source.  Additionally, upon submitting the above, I ask that you also include a very brief description.  Hint:  make your article stand out, in other words, make me want to read what you've found.
  3. Should you be selected as one of the lucky three, you will be required to write a 200 to 500 word blog post that describes the article you found.  The post you write up will be featured on this blog. Your post must include citations and references giving credit to the original source.  As an example, see the first post on this blog:  HERE, note that the description is 291 words in length.
  4. Should two students find and post the same article/story, regardless of source, the first student who posted the article/story in the comments will be considered.
  5. Lastly, this extra credit can only be received once by an individual student.
Lab 7 - Echinoderms and Chordates:

3 comments:

Erica DeMello, Bioscience Lab Section 28 "Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow Up": http://deepseanews.com/2011/05/some-echinoderms-will-never-grow-up/

With a sarcastic, funny tone, this article describes what the advantages of being a "juvenile" echinoderm are.

Meghan Skura Bioscience Lab Section 21 "Jaw less Vertebrae Had the World's Sharpest Teeth"
http://www.nature.com/news/jawless-vertebrate-had-world-s-sharpest-teeth-1.10211
Perhaps the most interesting thing I've ever heard about Jaw less fish! Learn about the world's sharpest teeth and more!

Dana Hebert, Bioscience Lab Section 28 'Paradox Worm' Xenoturbella Bocki Lacks Brain & Sex Organs, But Could Be Mankind's 'Progenitor'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/paradox-worm-xenoturbella-mankind-progenitor_n_2964009.html

Crazy to think that Humans could be more closely related to a simple worm lacking a brain and sex organs, than a creature with them such as a lobster!

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