My Sentence summaries for Innate and Learned.

Today for biology, we had to come up with a sentence that will help us with our external. There are 5 Characteristics of Innate Behaviour we were given to help us with our own sentence

• It can be passed to offspring (inherited from their parents).
• Even if offspring were raised away from their parents, they would still be able to do the behaviour because it is ‘intrinsic.’
• Every single member of the species will perform the behaviour in exactly the same way.
• Practising the behaviour will not develop it at all or make it better or changed at all.

The very first attempt at doing the behaviour will be 100% correct, as it is fully developed on the first try. No coaching or teaching is required, they can just do it.


My Sentence : It can be passed to offspring, which could be raised away from their parents. Every single member of the species will perform the behaviour in exactly the same way. This behaviour can’t be made  better or changed at all. The first attempt at doing the behaviour will be 100% correct.

The next task were are give to do is to go on activelylearn.:)

My Critter

My critter is called Flonty. which lives underground. It move up the concentration gradient of the chemical Name . Name the orientation in my animal and describe the adaptive value of the Flonty

Homeostasis assessment reflection

The assessment was alright. I thought I could have done better, I enjoyed the topic which was homeostasis, which was something new and very interesting to learn about. It also linked to diabetes, which is another interesting topic. This compared to year 12, this was easier and felt like less work , compared to last years assessment, it was quit difficult to get a high grade. The easiest bit was the negative feed back , writing about that was easy. Whereas with the homoestasis componenets was hard I couldn't find any resources. 2 tips to be successful listen to Miss in class, because she gives a lot of information, that too be honest I think I missed. Also another tip is find exemplers on the grade you want.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT DIABETES!!!

WARNING!!!! THE INFORMATION YOUR ABOUT TO READ IS NOT 100% CORRECT!! My name is Rachael and I am a year 13 at Tamaki College. We were told by our lovely biology teacher Ms Wells to write a post on about what we remember about diabetes on a assignment we did 2 years ago (year11) There are two types of diabetes - Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes is what your born with and cannot be prevented, but can be looked after  by medication , exercise and healthy food. Type 2 diabetes is caused by environmental factors such as junk food and lack of exercise..... and that's all I remember, I am sorry if this does not make sense, please bare with me as this is the first day back from a 2 month holiday. :D LOL