Sophia Ramnath Cuffy
ID # 00046339
Journal entry 5
Topic: “Stop the Press”
While walking in my back yard I noticed something that looked like an object I have never seen before, it was not familiar to me. Being very curious I got closer to get a good look of this interesting object or what I thought looked like one. I didn’t want to touch it with my hands so I put on some gloves and used a thong to pick it up and placed it in a dish. As I got a closer look, it seemed to look like a rock but it was covered with a moss like substance but it looked dried and brown and it was round, I said to myself, “this is too round to be a rock” so I touched it and it was a little tender when touched.
So I kept it to see if there would be any changes over night, but when I saw it the next day it looked the same nothing had changed. Then I put some water in the dish leaving it by the window where it can get some sunlight. I left it for the day and went about my daily duties, when I returned excited to see if there were any changes I rushed to my room to see all the water was gone the object looked the same so I wondered if the object absorbed the was or it was dried up by the sun. Day 2 I did the same thing but this time I did not put it in the sun, after a 12 hour period I checked on it and realized the water was gone so to my thinking, this object have to be absorbing this water. I measured it to see if there would be any growth progress for a seven day period.
The first measurement was at two and a half centimetres on day two. So I repeated the process with more sunlight to see if there would be any changes with the moss like substance covering it. As I observed it the dried mossy substance look liked it was changing colour and the root of it looked light green so I realized it have to be growing some way or the other. So a rushed to my computer to look up characteristics of living organisms, I saw seven characteristics which was growth, reproduction, irritability, movement, nutrition, excretion and respiration.( NSSC Biology 2014.)
So from my experiment I noticed that my object had new growth which showed from brown and dried to a light green. So this mean from the sun light and water it’s getting nutrition and respiration. On day 4 I measured it again and it reached to three centimetres so definitely this thing have to be growing and it is responding to my experiment, still not knowing what it was I continued so see what will be the outcome of this object. I kept repeating the process by putting water and giving it sunlight since there was no legs or a head so I could feed. So I treated it as a plant. And as the days passed it kept on growing getting greener but from that mossy look it changed to what looked like spikes long, hard and pointy. So there must be some movement in it although I can’t see it and irritability because it is responding to stimuli.
On day six something looked like a spore to the end of one of the spikes leaving it for the end of the day I wondered what it could be curiosity and excitement when checking on it in the evening it had dropped off and was next to the object, but it looked just liked the first specimen I had but in a smaller version. Leaving it for day seven I did not bother much about it so at the end of the 24 hour period too day seven I realized it reproduced so it was classified as and living organism although I did not know what it was, it showed all the characteristics of a living organism.
Reference:
Cambridge University Press 2014