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Thinking about evolution

I really enjoyed this week's lab. I have never really had the privilege of working with a microscope. We discussed what makes the cells vary after all the groups presented their findings. We really got into the topic of how cells may vary for many different reasons including climate/weather, or simply over time changes as their surroundings change. Evolution is all about organisms developing over time, changing as their environment, etc develop. The cells that we looked at in class differentiated in organisms' size e.g small flower like the buttercups vs huge tree like the pine. The pine tree changes over time or in different climates, but the amount and/or size of their cells would always have some set range because of the simple fact that it is a pine tree.  

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