So I'm going to ask for something a little different this time:
Option 1:
I'd like for you all to synthesize your information. In other words, put it all together and make some connections. You all written some good answers for the first two reflections, but I have these two criticisms:
- It sounds more like the text than your voices. I'd like for you to really put this into your own words, which means really thinking about what it all means.
- A lot of the information is redundant. Much of the material from each contribution overlapped.
So, what I want you to do is to start editing all your posts from the first two reflections. Here are the guidelines:
- This is a group effort, so don't restrict yourself to what you wrote.
- Consolidate the best text from everyone's answers into one answer that isn't repetitive.
- Once that is completed, you may see that more can be added, if so add it.
- If you're not sure where to begin, use the page history and recent changes functions to see what your classmates have already done and pick up where one of them left off
- Make the language simple and straightforward
- If you wrote on a separate page, try to integrate your work back into the main page.
Systematics is the study of organismal diversity. The main purpose of systematics is to document and discover all evolutionary relationships between species. We depend on a variety of species for various necessities such as food, shelter, fiber, clothing, paper, medicines, tools, dyes. Using systematics to study the evolution and relationship of species, we can make predictions about how organisms may evolve. By studying this we can find further use for organisms ex. plants for medicinal purposes etc.
There are other means that makes it possible for scientists to study organismal diversity and evolutionary relationships. Phylogenetics is one such means that is interrelated with systematic.Phylogenetic, the study of evolutionary relatedness between a group of organisms, relies on systematics to discover the evolutionary relationships between organisms so that organismal relationships can be further described in more details making it easier to reconstruct the evolutionary history of groups of organisms.
Option 2:
This is overlapping with the field guide a bit, but never matter. I think it would be good to make a pictorial guide to plant morphology terms. In other words, start creating a morphology glossary but add a representative photo or two that illustrates each term. This can be started within the Field Guide, or you may make a new main link from the front page.
Option 3:
Similar to option 2, start a botanical Latin glossary. Things to include:
- etymologies of the species names we encounter in the field
- etymologies of the morphology terms we use
- false cognates, (e.g., vulgaris) words that are similar to modern English words, but whose meanings are different
- mnemonics any way you can think of to help remember some of the weird Latin
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