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Biology in the News is presented by Dr. Lamar's Biology A/B classes. Each student is responsible for posting ONE blog entry and commenting on ONE post submitted by a fellow student.

About your initial posting . . . . . (approximately 150- 300 words)

Your initial posting is worth 30 points. It must be submitted by October 15th. - Locate an electronic article about a new finding in biology. Article must be been written in the last 12 months. Your posting should include 1) the name of the article (3 point), 2) article source - be specific (3 point), 3) date of article (2 point), 4) link to article (2 points), 5) summary of article in your own words (0-10 points), and 6) significance of article (0-10 points). Comments on significance of article can include (but not be limited to) importance of article to self, to society, or to the further advancement of a particular area of biology.

NOTE: To add link, select text in post that you want to link, click on link icon above posting field, and then paste URL information into appropriate field.

About your comments to a fellow classmate's posting . . . . (approximately 100 - 200 words)

Your comments to another student's posting is worth 20 points. Comments must be submitted between October 16 and November 19 - "The more you know, the more you realize there's a lot more to know" is certainly true to science. Read our Biology in the News blob posts. Pick one post (not your own) and submit comments about this post. Comments should included 1) A question that is raised in your mind by the post. The question should have scientific relevance (0 - 5 points) 2) a response to your question. (0-15 points) Research your question and answer it. If the answer is currently unknown, provide additional background information, describe research that is being done in this field, and/or research that is required for the question to be answered.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Fungal Spores travel farther by surfing their own wind

Article published on September 28, 2010
http://http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/09/28/fungal_spores_travel_farther_by_surfing_their_own_wind.html

According to the new study by mathematicians and biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, and Cornell University, one destructive fungus Sclerontinia spews thousands of spores to form a plume that reduces drag to zero and creates a wind that carries the spores nearly 20 feet farther than a single spore could carry itself. Over 100 years ago scientist realized that many spore producing fungi use plumes to to carry them father, but 50 years ago discovered that they create their own wind to carry them twice as far. with this new discovery scientist learn now fungus is passed along to plant life up to 400 species of plants.
By now how these spores release this fungus will lead us to new ways of plant architecture.

I think by knowing how these spores release and how far the fungus travels is very important, it could help scientist in the future better understand plant life, and their contents. this could help with all the plant life and why most plants are killed by this fungus. If scientist continue this research they could help save some of the plant species, and have more evidence of what goes on with the spores and plant architecture.
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