Blurbs

I feel like (you're slipping away,&)

we are dangling on a thin thread.

I'm over you. I'm over you

But your presence makes me think.

Makes me remember.

Of the times I cherish with you.

Your effort, your shyness, you. &I

Wonder.

Was it me? Somehow, was it me?

Am I not enough anymore?

For your attention. Your thoughts.

Do I cross your mind? Your heart? &I

Wonder.

Is there a future for us? At all?

Why couldn't I pull away sooner?

Why can't I pull away now?

You frustrate me.

I don't think you realize,

how deeply I'm caught.

You were my first, serious investment.

Investment in love.

Deposited my feelings but

lost the savings.

Why can't I just move on? Why

are you still so close in my heart?

This hurts. It sucks.

I cry cry cry sometimes,

because I still have hope.

That somehow, just maybe,

this vicious cycle would eventually

bring us back together.

You don't want us.

No holding hands

No affection hugs

No nothing

even though it used to be normal.

I don't want false hope. &I

know it is me, making it harder.

It's just difficult. To erase.

And easier to believe

that you would realize

what you had was all of me. &That

would be enough.

Logistics

I used a grey, four-hole button to show evidence that these pictures belong to me. If anything, I used the same color nail polish (magenta purple) in every picture.

Credits go to www.dictionary.com and Campbell's 6th Edition Biology textbook!

The terms I used:

1. Cuticle Layer of a Plant +4
2. Bilateral Symmetry +4
3. Heterotroph +4
4. Same Order, but a Different Family +8
5. Modified Root of a Plant +4
6. Exoskeleton +4
7. Genetic Variation within a Population +4
8. Sporophyte +4
9. Radial Symmetry +4
10. Modified Stem of a Plant +2
11. Frond +4
12. Stigma +4
13. Ectothermic +4
14. Gymnosperm cone +2
15. Basidiomycete +4
16. Homeostasis +4
17. Modified Leaf of a Plant +4
18. Long Day Plant +4
19. CAM plant +4
20. Endotherm +4
21. Fermentation +4
22. Pollen +4
23. Population +4
24. Asexual Reproduction +4
25. Autotroph +4
26. Pollinator +4
27. Rhizome +2

Total Points: 106

AP BIOLOGY (cont.)

21. Fermentation : A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from glucose without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic end product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic acid. In the examples (yogurt and) below, both undergo fermentation.


22. Pollen: The fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses. In the pictures below, especially near the center, is pollen.



23. Population : The total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area. The pictures below show reptiles and fishes living together in their area.



24. Asexual Reproduction : Invovles only one parent; This reproduction produces genetically identical offspring by budding (the division of a single cell or the entire organism) into two or more parts. In the example below, strawberries have stolons who plant themselves around the strawberries to produce more.



25. Autotroph: Any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists. Plants (like flowers) are autotrophs.


26. Pollinator: Anything that assists in transferring pollen from one plant to another. Below is a picture of a bumblebee and wasp was who is rubbing itself against the flower, and later will repeat, thus he will spread pollen.


27. Rhizome: A rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface. These are just many pictures of different potatoes, which are rhizomes.

AP BIOLOGY (cont.)

11. Frond: An often large, finely divided leaf, esp. as applied to the ferns and certain palms. Below are pictures of a palm tree and fern.



12. Stigma: The part of a pistil that receives the pollen. Below are pictures of flowers' stigma.



13. Ectothermic: (sometimes confusingly known as "cold-blooded") refers to organisms that control body temperature through external means. As a result, organisms are dependent on environmental heat sources and have relatively low metabolic rates.



14. Gymnosperm cone: A group of spermatophyte seed-bearing plants with ovules on scales, which are usually arranged in cone-like structures.



15. Basidiomycete: Any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs. Below are different types of mushrooms/shitake.



16. Homeostasis: The tendency of a system, esp. the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus tending to disturb its normal condition or function. Below is a picture of a small hamster and a large chinchilla.



17. Modified Leaf of a Plant: Below are pictures of a plant with different leaf colors due to the changing season and weather. The picture on the right has a plant with leaves of different thickness as well as colors.



18. Long Day Plant: Long-day plants are those that require a long period of exposure to light each day in order to produce flowers. Plants use environmental cues such as amount of light and temperatureto time their development to the season of the year. Lettuce and spinach both need a lot of sunlight to develop.



19. CAM plant: Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis , is an elaborate carbon fixation pathway in some plants. The CAM pathway allows the stomata to remain shut during the day; therefore it is especially common in plants adapted to arid conditions. A pineapple and jade plant are an examples because of their thick leaves and ability to adapt in arid conditions.



20. Endotherm: (In regards to animals) Endotherm is linked with a warm-blooded animal species is one whose members maintain thermal homeostasis. Birds (like the pictures below) in general maintain a thermal homeostasis.

AP BIOLOGY

1.Cuticle Layer of a Plan: The cuticle is a non-cellular protective layer covering the outer cell layer (epidermis) of the green, aerial parts of land plants. Cuticles protect plants against dessication, UV radiation and various kinds of physical, chemical and (micro) biological agents.



2. Bilateral Symmetry: Symmetry in biology is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. The body plans of most multicellular organisms exhibit some form of symmetry, either radial symmetry or bilateral symmetry or "spherical symmetry". Bilateral means two-sided. Below are two types of bilateral symmetry seen in leaves.



3. Heterotroph: An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition. Below are two different types of snakes, both of whom eat other organisms (i.e. mice) in order to gain energy.



4. Same Order, but a Different Family: Below are frogs exhibiting different colors and spot sizes, but are ultimately from different family. The last picture is of the the same, only with birds.



5. Modified Root of a Plant (carrots): In the example below, the carrots and radishes end-tips are already cut off so that we can eat it without worrying about the leafy-greens.



6. Exoskeleton: A hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, that provides protection or support for an organism. In the examples below, there are crabs and lobsters both having their tough shell.



7. Genetic Variation within a Population: Genetic variation, variation in alleles of genes, occurs both within and among populations. The pictures below are of different colored bell peppers and different colored apples.



8. Sporophyte: The spore-producing phase in the life cycle of a plant that exhibits alternation of generations.



9. Radial Symmetry: Symmetry in biology is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. The body plans of most muticellular organisms exhibit some form of symmetry, either radial symmetry or bilateral symmetry or "spherical symmetry". Radial means made in the direction of a radius.



10. Modified Stem of a Plant: The pictures below show an onion who's stem has been cut off (the leafy-greens aren't attatched, but it's close to it).