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 Like what others said, in the beginning of this week, it looked as if we were going to have some clear distinctions for once. The classification between autotrophs and heterotrophs seemed pretty clear and after all the confusions we went through; i was releived to see some clear distinctions and boundaries. However, with the example of fungi’s, again there proved to be exceptions to this way of grouping... 

Although, we are yet to find any clear cut definition for anything, i have learned a lot from this week. (especially from our lab Thursday). Posed with the question of does cell size have effect with the size of the organism, i thought there could be no possible connection between the two since organisms vary so greatly in size while cells are relativiely similar in their size. However, there seems to be somewhat of a connection between them since larger organisms tend to have more complicated cells and complicated cells tend to be larger in size than simpler ones.   

This story was strengthened by our lecture (?) on the prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Only single cell organisms (which are therefore much simpler and smaller) had prokaryote cells ( which do not have walls and are smaller)

Although there haven’t been any clear boundaries or distinctions about living organisms, I think I have learned a great deal about life and what composes them.

Andy