Week 3 Reflective Journal

This week, we are still learning about history of life. We had SCL activities in class and we made a flowchart to show the stages of how life formed. It really summarized the whole process.I found that the overall process of life formation took a really long time.

We also learnt about classification. All living things are classified into 6 kingdoms of life ( classification ) and given scientific names ( taxonomy ). All these help to organize the species that we had discover.

For phylogenetic, the classical method dealt with physical or morphological features but the modern phylogeny uses DNA and protein information.

What I learned is that science is a very organized field because everything is grouped and classified properly.This topic is very relevant in my studies because I may have to deal with a huge variety of living things and classification will help me to identify the basic characteristics.