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I liked the discussion in class on Wednesday about the differences between plants and animals. It was concluded that plants and animals are in two different groups (aka 'clumps'). We elaborated on the differences by categorizing them. First, as stated before, plants are autotrophs and animals are heterotrophs. The second distinction is that plant cells have walls and animals do not. The third is that animal cells move a great deal in their development, whereas, plants do not move their cells around. The last differentiation being that plants themselves do not move around. This seemed very logical but what struck me was the idea that there are no living organisms that connect the gap between the two groups. I never thought of it in that manner and after thinking it over, I could not think of any group that would fill that gap. The great thing about science is that there are always new discoveries, maybe one day that gap will be filled. Hopefully this discovery will happen because as said in class, classifications will change when new observations are made.