Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Writing Sample

You are to post your version of how we have evolved to the level of diversity we have today from a single celled organism. Do your story as a word doc. first, and then you can copy and paste it into a comment box.

13 comments:

  1. Bob was first created to be able to run faster than any other creature and blend in with the environment. He is the most dominate predator of them all with no predators hunting him but the humans. Only a bullet will kill him. However, Bob did not just pop out of no where. Bob was created when an accident happened during selected selection, in which a chameleon mated with a cheetah. Where did these creatures come from? It's real simple. Everything evolved from fish since3 fish were the first to envade land. The fish are from a mutation in rocks. The rock had an extra unknown molecule and grew fins, gills, eyes, and a mouth. Rocks were formed from single-cells that combined! This is the backwards process of how Bob, the ultimate creature, was formed.

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  2. Billions and billions of years ago…

    A little, tiny cynaobacteria named Dylan was floating around in a colony in the ocean. Dylan was out enjoying being single-celled organism when out of nowhere, a bacterium named Shannon latched on to his side. “OUCH!” he exclaimed as he squirmed to try to break himself free. But Shannon latched hard and was able to join onto his cell. This same thing happened to all the others in the colony, and slowly, over generations, the two cells became one multicellular organism. They became more diverse as a result of sexual reproduction and oxygen levels increased in the world, causing variation in different cells all over the world. Over billions of years the cells have changed and mutated to become every living thing in the world.


    -Matt Ripkey and Anna Lindner

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  3. Cynobacteria was created from the first anaerobic prokaryotes. The Cynobacteria received their energy through photosynthesis. Cynobacteria lived in colonies and formed Stromalites. Stromalites were formations of layered Cynobacteria and sediment. The Stromalites released oxygen as a by-product. The oxygen in the atmosphere and the ocean allowed evolution of aerobic prokaryotes. Eukaryotic cells were initially only made of one cell, but then transformed to multicellular organisms. These multicellular organisms arranged themselves and during the Cambrian explosion, became a trilobite.

    Shannon McMillan, and Dylan Freytag.

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  4. Between 4 and 3.8 billions years ago the earth started to cool down. The continents began to form and water condensed and fell as rain that collected in large bodies of water. Lightning strikes gave energy that led to the formation of organic molecules from inorganic molecules. Eli the first single celled organism was born. Bacteria then were consumed by Eli and an endosymbiosis relationship was formed. Due to environment changes Eli found that to better survive he had to work together with other organisms. Eli became a multi-celled organism. Over millions of years Eli became more complex, which led to him evolving into a vertebrate. After a time other creatures were becoming faster and stronger. So Eli had to evolve, he lost his shell to improve his speed and mobility. He was now an invertebrate. Unfortunately there was a mass extinction and most of the Paleozoic animals died, but Eli survived. He than evolved into a Shastasauria which was a marine animal that dominated the sea. Again there was a mass extinction and basically every living thing died. But Eli survived, again. Due to fish becoming faster and smaller Eli had to adapt. He started growing smaller and faster. Eli became a dolphin.

    By: Daniel and Eli

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  5. It all started in space. The Mr. Phillips nebula, a cloud of floating dust and gas, gave birth to the star of Mr Phillips which is now known as the sun. The remaining dust formed several planets that orbited the sun. These were Planet phillips 1-9 until recently renamed. On a certain planet, earth, a bolt of lightning that goes by the name of paul struck the ocean. This combination of energy and inorganic materials led to the formation of organic molecules. One particualar organic molecule, named Mr. Phillips, figured out how to use lipid membranes to encase a grouping of organic molecules and protect them. This discovery would later lead to the very first true cells. Once cells became popular they needed to get energy to survive. Most were anaerobic and lived without oxygen and fed on organic materials. However, Mr. phillips, the cell, developed a new way to gain energy. He used oxygen and the sun. He became the first cyanobacteria. many cells followed in his footsteps. But cells needed not only energy but to reproduce. At the time asexual reproduction was popular. that was untill the trusted Mr. Phillips, the cell, taught the cells to reproduce sexually. This increased cell diversity which began the process of natural selection. Also, cells needed to cooperate to reproduce sexually. This later led to the cooperation of cells within one organism.
    Mr. phillips taught these new multicelular organisms to move onto land. They then evolved into many organisms. These include the dinosaurs. Mr. Phillipsaurus was one of them. He tried to tell the rest of the dinos that they would become extinct but they didn't listen. Even though the dinosaurs are dead, many diferent phillips evolved. These include underwater carnivorous Mr. Phillips(shark) and furry Mr. Phillips(mammal). One of the branches of furry Mr. Phillips were primates. They evolved good eyesight and oposable thumbs. Many branches of primates evolved to create the modern day Mr. Phillips, a bipedal hominid that teaches the theory of evolution which was coincidently created by him.

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  6. In the ancient tidepools of 1 billion years ago a single cell organism is created. We will call him Bob. Bob is immediatly attacked by a larger organism. Bob swims away and realizes he is very fast. Using this to his advantage he dominates the tidepool by eating everything slower than him. Bob becomes a multicellular organism!
    Bob grows a mouth and lugs and slithers out to land. Bob begins to hunt slow insects and smaller creatures than him. Bob evolves and grows legs and fur. Using his new speed Bob runs across the land and migrates to North America. Bob begins a small colony of Bobolonians. To use tools they grow opposable thumbs and stand up.
    Soon though the Bobolonians are ravaged by a serial killer know only as Bob Saw. The CBA (Central Bob Agency)is tasked to capture him. A young CBA agent named Bob is heading the task force. Too bad Bob is captured by Bob Saw!
    Bob wakes up in a strange bathroom with 5 other Bobolonians. They exchange names which are Bob, Bob, Bobette, and some dude named Joe. In the cell there is a radio tuned to 95.3 bob fm. suddenly the radio switches and bob saw comes on and says, "Hello bob, I would like to play a game. there is a rubix cube covered in acid. you must solve it to get the key to open the door. you have five minutes. Amen." Bob solves the cube and gets out alive, now able to solve mental problems. Bob then goes on to catch Bob Saw who was dying of cancer. but it turns out Bob Saw had an accomplice and the bob saw story goes on.

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  7. Billions and billions ago, a cyanobacteria, named Melvin, roamed the new Earth. One day he came across a cell and latched on. Because this cell had a nucleus, it was Eukaryotic, Melvin was able to carry on life through the Eukaryotic path. He began to form energy through ATP and found a stable environment as well as nutrients. He then multiplied himself. By the Cenozoic Era, he had enough cells to form a being; the early form of today’s Giraffe. Compared to all his brothers and sisters, Melvin had an unusually long neck. He was ridiculed and made fun of but this trait proved useful; he could reach the greener leaves in the trees. A few years later, on a fine spring day, he noticed her; a Giraffe with an even longer neck than his. It was beautiful, she was beautiful, Genevieve the Giraffe. The way she stretched her long neck to reach those greens, Melvin had never seen a more gorgeous creature. He had to introduce himself. It only took 8 hours, 22 minutes, and 13 seconds for the two to fall in love. Together forever, the two mated. Their long-necked genes were passed to two darling young-ins through the cell cycle; Myrtle and Wilfred. With the longest necks of their clan, they thrived on greens in high places. During all these years, Melvin’s siblings had followed in suit, but lacked the nutrients that are in the tall trees. They soon became weak. One day, a wicked prairie fire spread and wiped out all the tall grasses of the Savannah. Melvin’s siblings soon starved. The wished and pleaded for longer necks but nature wasn’t on their sides. In less than a year, Melvin’s small family was the only to survive. He and Genevieve were blessed with two more offspring named Donnatella and Wilbur who also carried the long-necked trait. Seeking new room and mates for the children, Melvin and Genevieve relocated and discovered a clan with equally long necks as their own. Over time, these long-necked giraffes survived and continued through life. The trait was passed on, and soon all giraffes had long necks. From their perches in heaven, Melvin and Genevieve smiled down upon their descendants and thought; we did it, we allowed them to survive, we made them, they will be forever ours.


    The End



    Molly Kovarik and Grace Zitzler

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  8. There were three fat hamsters living in a coconut under the tree. One day, “gramma-pa” the wise tranny-toad visited for the weekend with her grandhammys. The three hamsters lovvveee their gramma-pa. Gramma-pa loves to tell her grandhammys little stories of her long, toady life. But, on this day, gramma-pa decided the fat little hamsters needed a talkin’ on some evolutional history. She began with an introduction of “get your furry butts on the carpet by the fireplace, I gots ya’ll a talkn’ thang tuh telll yuhhh”. All three fat hammys sat their fluffy lil’ booties on the carpet, ready for a gramma-pa talkn’ to. ♥
    The wise old tranny toad sat her bumpy toady butt on a rockn’ chair by the fire ready to tell her grandhammys a good ole’ teachn’ talk. “Alrite children, ya’ll know we didn’t just pop up on this coconut one day and started on with our livin’ right? Ya’ll wana know what really happened?” croaked the sexy tranny toad.
    “Why yes gramma-pa, we would love some talkns’ of the truth” said one fatty.
    “I LOVE YOU GRAMMA-PA” squeaked the stupid hammy.
    “Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” quacked a random duck.
    “Good, alrite children, get comfy up in here ‘cause this is a long talkn’ we gunna be does-n’.” meowed the tranny toad.
    The three fat fluffy hamsters cozied up in some snuggies and ate some Eskimo pies and waited for their half-awake tranny gramma-pa to get on talkn’.
    “Back in the day, when this place, I mean the whole planet, was still being perfected by nature, the first organisms were on the planet livin’ their tiny lives. Can you guess what all the organisms were like back in dah day?”
    “Gramma-pa, I have no idea, I aint never been in a school in mah life” said the one fluffy hammy.
    “Aight, well back then, all organisms were single-celled and tiny, yuh know, we evolved, or changed over long-time, into who we are today, from all dem mini organisms a long time ago. All us creatures today are still evolvin’ and will until the world ends”
    “GRAMMA-PA! Does that mean one day we will be GIANT hamsters?!” said one of the fat hammys.
    “That could happen, depending on the conditions of our environment and how natural selection gets us.” Mumbled the tired gramma-pa.
    “Oh gramma-pa, can we go in a time machine and see what comes of us in the future?” meowed a baby hammy.
    “Oh, dang, I think I peed in the time machine’s engine.” Said the tranny-toad
    “Oh pooba” said a baby hammy
    “It’s okay, we will clean it up” said some random spiders
    BUHBAM! The time machine got all cleaned up and then the hammys and their gramma-pa got to go in the future… fast forward…..they’re in the future right meow….


    “Here we are kids” said gramma-pa while fixin’ her lipstick
    “LOOK!” said one of the hammys pointing at a bunch of rocket-butted hamsters of the future.
    “OH MY BUDDHA! We will evolve to have rocket butts to escape our predators and rule the planet like the dinosaurs did” said a hammy.
    BUH bAm! Some dinosaurs show up in their own time machine, scream and rage about not ruling the world and then explode and get flesh allover the place.
    “I love you gramma-pa, lets go home and sleep on the CARPEt” said a hammy.
    “THE END” said the tranny toad wisely, knowing he/she is a part of a story for Tora and Newman’s biology assignment.

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  9. About 210 million years ago, the first turtle, named Proganochelys, was founded in Germany. This relates to the evolution theory of Charles Darwin. Turtle’s shells are formed in two stages. First the underside of the shell, called the plastron, developed, then the ribs and backbone grew out to form the upper shell or carapace. These turtles have been alive for many years, including the dinosour ages. From the Mesozoic ara to the 21st centry, turtles have struggled to survive. As the mother, Ottawa, roams around looking for food and a mate, so is the father, Ontario. They meet up, noticing eachother’s beauty. They get to it right away, sexual reproduction occuring, passing the generations on. After, Ottawa must find a safe place for her fertilized eggs, so they will be protected from the predators. After a long, hard day of walking, trying to find the nesting area, she finds the perfect spot. She places her eggs, about 5 feet from the ocean, and diggs the hole. Placing the eggs inside the sandy hole, she covers it, making sure no predators will find them. There are about 6 eggs, each only a single celled organisms. 49 days passed on, as the turtles went into stages of only chromosomes to a living organism. Ottawa is no where near the eggs, leaving them on their own. Luckily, all six of the eggs hatch, 4 boys and 2 girls. As Lutz, Nicolson, Coop, Reina, Ridley, and Caretta, made their way through the sand, they pop and see the sunlight for the first time. Caretta leads the pack, moving to the ocean, but Coop wonders from the pack and move the opposite way, to the forrest. The babies need water as soon as they can get it, but the first task awaits them. Battling through the harsh world, the 5 struggle. Reina flips over on her back, not being able to move, and dries up. Ridley, Caretta, and Nicolson all meet up with a pack of birds. Leo, Carmen, Bann, and Sol, the birds names, eat them.  Lutz, the only survivor, seeing how Coop probably already dried up, moves to the water. The birds, being to full, ignore him. Lutz plops into the water, soon passing on the generation of Ottawa and Ontario. But that’s not all folks, to the rescue comes Ontario saving Coop from the wild. He moves Coop to the right direction, and pushes him into the water with Lutz. Lutz and Coop soon meet up and mate.




    - Lyz barry and Danielle young

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  10. About 210 million years ago, the first turtle, named Proganochelys, was founded in Germany. This relates to the evolution theory of Charles Darwin. Turtle’s shells are formed in two stages. First the underside of the shell, called the plastron, developed, then the ribs and backbone grew out to form the upper shell or carapace. These turtles have been alive for many years, including the dinosour ages. From the Mesozoic ara to the 21st centry, turtles have struggled to survive. As the mother, Ottawa, roams around looking for food and a mate, so is the father, Ontario. They meet up, noticing eachother’s beauty. They get to it right away, sexual reproduction occuring, passing the generations on. After, Ottawa must find a safe place for her fertilized eggs, so they will be protected from the predators. After a long, hard day of walking, trying to find the nesting area, she finds the perfect spot. She places her eggs, about 5 feet from the ocean, and diggs the hole. Placing the eggs inside the sandy hole, she covers it, making sure no predators will find them. There are about 6 eggs, each only a single celled organisms. 49 days passed on, as the turtles went into stages of only chromosomes to a living organism. Ottawa is no where near the eggs, leaving them on their own. Luckily, all six of the eggs hatch, 4 boys and 2 girls. As Lutz, Nicolson, Coop, Reina, Ridley, and Caretta, made their way through the sand, they pop and see the sunlight for the first time. Caretta leads the pack, moving to the ocean, but Coop wonders from the pack and move the opposite way, to the forrest. The babies need water as soon as they can get it, but the first task awaits them. Battling through the harsh world, the 5 struggle. Reina flips over on her back, not being able to move, and dries up. Ridley, Caretta, and Nicolson all meet up with a pack of birds. Leo, Carmen, Bann, and Sol, the birds names, eat them.  Lutz, the only survivor, seeing how Coop probably already dried up, moves to the water. The birds, being to full, ignore him. Lutz plops into the water, soon passing on the generation of Ottawa and Ontario. But that’s not all folks, to the rescue comes Ontario saving Coop from the wild. He moves Coop to the right direction, and pushes him into the water with Lutz. Lutz and Coop soon meet up and mate.

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  11. I just wana say meow and my story kicks all ya'lls butt. o.o

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  12. Once upon a time a meteorite fell to Earth. It landed in the water where a bacterium in the meteorite formed with the water to make an amoeba-like structure. Originally, the bacterium could only dwell in water because it had no protection for its inner structure. Soon there was an ice age and the amoeba froze to the bottom layer of the sea. Being at the bottom of the sea, sediment along with salt and ice formed a cell wall around the amoeba. Through fission the amoeba began to exponentially reproduce, becoming the most dominant single celled organism on Earth. The amoeba's living space became so crowded that they started bonding together forming multiple multicellular organisms.A massive drought greatly reduces water levels beaching the amoeba structures and forcing them to adapt to life on land. The adapted amoeba continually evolve becoming the dominant land-dwelling organism.

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