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After a few back rubs and lots of hugs and kisses, I got my wish. A new Natasha emerged as soon as I opened my present. Inquisitive about the subject matter. Interested in reading all of the books on the shelf. The extreme case of self-fertilization occurs in flowers that always self-fertilize, such as many dandelions.
Some flowers are self-pollinated and use flowers that never open or are self-pollinated before the flowers open, these flowers are called cleistogamous. Many Viola species and some Salvia have these types of flowers. Conversely, many species of plants have ways of preventing self-fertilization.
Unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant may not appear or mature at the same time, or pollen from the same plant may be incapable of fertilizing its ovules. The latter flower types, which have chemical barriers to their own pollen, are referred to as self-sterile or self-incompatible.
Plants cannot move from one location to another, thus many flowers have evolved to attract animals to transfer pollen between individuals in dispersed populations. Flowers that are insect-pollinated are called entomophilous; literally "insect-loving" in Greek. They can be highly modified along with the pollinating insects by co-evolution.
Flowers commonly have glands called nectaries on various parts that attract animals looking for nutritious nectar. Birds and bees have color vision, enabling them to seek out "colorful" flowers. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar; they may be visible only under ultraviolet light, which is visible to bees and some other insects.
Flowers also attract pollinators by scent and some of those scents are pleasant to our sense of smell. Not all flower scents are appealing to humans; a number of flowers are pollinated by insects that are attracted to rotten flesh and have flowers that smell like dead animals, often called Carrion flowers, including Rafflesia, the titan arum, and the North American pawpaw Asimina triloba.
Flowers pollinated by night visitors, including bats and moths, are likely to concentrate on scent to attract pollinators and most such flowers are white. Other flowers use mimicry to attract pollinators. Male bees move from one such flower to another in search of a mate. Many flowers have close relationships with one or a few specific pollinating organisms. Many flowers, for example, attract only one specific species of insect, and therefore rely on that insect for successful reproduction.
This close relationship is often given as an example of coevolution, as the flower and pollinator are thought to have developed together over a long period of time to match each other's needs. This close relationship compounds the negative effects of extinction. The extinction of either member in such a relationship would mean almost certain extinction of the other member as well. Some endangered plant species are so because of shrinking pollinator populations.
There is much confusion about the role of flowers in allergies. For example, the showy and entomophilous goldenrod Solidago is frequently blamed for respiratory allergies, of which it is innocent, since its pollen cannot be airborne. The types of pollen that most commonly cause allergic reactions are produced by the plain-looking plants trees, grasses, and weeds that do not have showy flowers. These plants make small, light, dry pollen grains that are custom-made for wind transport.
The type of allergens in the pollen is the main factor that determines whether the pollen is likely to cause hay fever. For example, pine tree pollen is produced in large amounts by a common tree, which would make it a good candidate for causing allergy. It is, however, a relatively rare cause of allergy because the types of allergens in pine pollen appear to make it less allergenic.
Instead the allergen is usually the pollen of the contemporary bloom of anemophilous ragweed Ambrosia , which can drift for many miles. Scientists have collected samples of ragweed pollen miles out at sea and 2 miles high in the air.
Among North American plants, weeds are the most prolific producers of allergenic pollen. It is common to hear people say they are allergic to colorful or scented flowers like roses. In fact, only florists, gardeners, and others who have prolonged, close contact with flowers are likely to be sensitive to pollen from these plants.
Most people have little contact with the large, heavy, waxy pollen grains of such flowering plants because this type of pollen is not carried by wind but by insects such as butterflies and bees.
While land plants have existed for about million years, the first ones reproduced by a simple adaptation of their aquatic counterparts: spores. In the sea, plants—and some animals—can simply scatter out genetic clones of themselves to float away and grow elsewhere. This is how early plants reproduced.
But plants soon evolved methods of protecting these copies to deal with drying out and other damage which is even more likely on land than in the sea. The protection became the seed, though it had not yet evolved the flower.
Early seed-bearing plants include the ginkgo and conifers. Several groups of extinct gymnosperms, particularly seed ferns, have been proposed as the ancestors of flowering plants but there is no continuous fossil evidence showing exactly how flowers evolved. The apparently sudden appearance of relatively modern flowers in the fossil record posed such a problem for the theory of evolution that it was called an "abominable mystery" by Charles Darwin.
Recently discovered angiosperm fossils such as Archaefructus, along with further discoveries of fossil gymnosperms, suggest how angiosperm characteristics may have been acquired in a series of steps. An early fossil of a flowering plant, Archaefructus liaoningensis from China, is dated about million years old.
In a plant million-year-old Montsechia vidalii, discovered in Spain was claimed to be million years old. Recent DNA analysis molecular systematics [25] shows that Amborella trichopoda, found on the Pacific island of New Caledonia, is the only species in the sister group to the rest of the flowering plants, and morphological studies suggest that it has features which may have been characteristic of the earliest flowering plants.
Besides the hard proof of flowers in or shortly before the Cretaceous,[27][28] there is some circumstantial evidence of flowers as much as million years ago. A chemical used by plants to defend their flowers, oleanane, has been detected in fossil plants that old, including gigantopterids,[29] which evolved at that time and bear many of the traits of modern, flowering plants, though they are not known to be flowering plants themselves, because only their stems and prickles have been found preserved in detail; one of the earliest examples of petrification.
The similarity in leaf and stem structure can be very important, because flowers are genetically just an adaptation of normal leaf and stem components on plants, a combination of genes normally responsible for forming new shoots.
The flowers would have tended to grow in a spiral pattern, to be bisexual in plants, this means both male and female parts on the same flower , and to be dominated by the ovary female part. As flowers grew more advanced, some variations developed parts fused together, with a much more specific number and design, and with either specific sexes per flower or plant, or at least "ovary inferior". The general assumption is that the function of flowers, from the start, was to involve animals in the reproduction process.
Pollen can be scattered without bright colors and obvious shapes, which would therefore be a liability, using the plant's resources, unless they provide some other benefit. One proposed reason for the sudden, fully developed appearance of flowers is that they evolved in an isolated setting like an island, or chain of islands, where the plants bearing them were able to develop a highly specialized relationship with some specific animal a wasp, for example , the way many island species develop today.
This symbiotic relationship, with a hypothetical wasp bearing pollen from one plant to another much the way fig wasps do today, could have eventually resulted in both the plant s and their partners developing a high degree of specialization. Island genetics is believed to be a common source of speciation, especially when it comes to radical adaptations which seem to have required inferior transitional forms.
Note that the wasp example is not incidental; bees, apparently evolved specifically for symbiotic plant relationships, are descended from wasps.
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When a child has special needs, their brothers and sisters face unique challenges. With quotes and illustrations from kids and insight from the author's experience, "I Have Needs Too! The book offers practical advice on how to help a child deal with issues such as embarrassment, the wish for understanding, the sense of responsibility, the importance of fairness, the need for protection, and the sense love and joy that they share with their brother or sister.
The siblings of children with special needs are often the overlooked ones in families struggling to cope. Kate Strohm is an experienced health professional and journalist who has sister with cerebral palsy.
In this book she shares the story of her journey from confusion and distress to understanding and acceptance. She provides a forum for other siblings to describe their own journeys. Kate also provides strategies that siblings themselves, parents and practitioner can use to support the brothers and sisters of children with special. Lucy does not understand why her little brother Bo gets special treatment, but soon discovers he has special needs and learns how to help him grow and learn.
This is an invaluable contribution to helping typically developing children understand that a child with autism is a child first, and is someone interesting to know. Sarah gives insight into the sibling relationship in a way only a child would know. The book is heart-warming and introspective, with a writing style that makes it appropriate for children and adults alike.
Bridget and Carlton are as close as any sister and brother. But their relationship is particularly special. Carlton has autism and is almost completely nonverbal. He has immense challenges in speaking full sentences.
Carlton Hudgens was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at three years old. The diagnosis provided a label, but not an answer. That sentence meant that he could hear her, that he could speak, and that she had a chance to reach her ultimate goal of bonding with her brother.
When Bridget was eleven years old, she and Carlton went to the public pool. And I just think that's so backwards because how can you give from emptiness? If you're a completely empty and you're not taking care of yourself, then what do you have to give?
So prioritizing your health really making the sacrifices to eat healthy most of the time, to take care of your body, to get enough sleep.
These are things that are the foundation of my life, that I know everything else builds upon. The next trait of successful women is they don't ever put themselves in victim mode. And this is a hard one and this is one even though I'm aware of it, I catch myself sometimes.
And it's a hard thing because I think that feeling like a victim feels very justified a lot of the time because we are acted upon, oftentimes by exterior circumstances that we have no control in. And so it feels very justified. But then we need to ask ourselves, is it actually serving us? And so successful women know this. Are they perfect at doing it? Are they trying and they're aware? So an example of this was our Hawaiian trip did not start out in the most ideal way.
We were running a little bit behind at the airport, we got up to like in the morning. Looking back on it, I would have left my house at in the morning. So we get to the airport, the Salt Lake City Airport has changed recently, they have a brand new beautiful airport. And they also have a new system designed to park in the economy parking lot.
So the route that we normally take is not the same route that it normally was. So we get there a little bit later than expected. It all takes a lot longer going from our car, to the shuttle, to the terminal.
You missed it. We missed it by five minutes. And honestly, I can really go into detail about the way that she was. What I honestly saw afterward was I think that she was I'm assuming she had worked the entire night, and was about to get off work. And she was not offering us any helpful solutions at all.
So what are our solutions? Let's talk about that. And looking back on it, I mean, honestly, there were so many things I would have changed.
I would have had Tyler drop me off and check our bags first while he parked. But at this point, we didn't have these options. I literally asked her what are our solutions? The only thing she said is we can re-book you on the flight for tomorrow. A babysitter slept over last night to be with my kids. We are all packed. I'm like, that's not an option. Let me take all the facts that we have and make a decision. So I said all right, well, this is what's going on. I looked into some other flights that were leaving and we ended up re-booking and paying for like, disgustingly enough to take a one way flight to Hawaii, our flights back are still the same.
But we ended up booking a one way flight to Hawaii, from Salt Lake City. And had ended up having a five hour layover in LAX, which is honestly not the most ideal airport, let's just be honest. But long story short, we made the decision, we moved forward, we re-booked a flight through a different airline and we ended up making it.
And we got here, I think, about four hours later than the original flight. And yeah, all of those things are true. But sitting in that victim mindset isn't going to get me anywhere, it is what it is. I cannot go back in time. I can make decisions in the future to get to the airport early enough.
At this point, I'm going to get there at least two hours prior because of this new airport. But at this point, when we're standing there at the American Airlines check in and they said there's nothing we can do, we made the decision to go ahead and move forward with what we were dealing with in the present moment.
And we were present. And staying in that victim mindset would not have helped me. And yes, you could argue all day long like I mentioned that those things, sure, it would have been great if the airport hadn't changed their parking lot system, we wouldn't have missed our flight. But that's where we were at. There's nothing we can do at that point. So what is the solution? What do we do now? This is something that successful people consistently ask themselves to continue to move forward in their life.
My business coach and mentor Jody Moore is incredible. She's the one that I found out about this model that I now teach you and apply to women with infertility. And she has a new book out called Better Than Happy which I'll link here in the show notes. You can buy it on Amazon or on Audible to listen to. Which is what I always do, I listen to like a book a week because I love listening on Audible. And she is incredible.
I love her, I love what she teaches. And one thing that I love about her is that she's really good in her books specifically, and always of course, but in her book teaching about let's not fight against what the ideal is versus what our reality is. So one of the examples that she gave in her book was that they were running five minutes late.
We would have been able to relax more. We would have been able to just enjoy the circumstances more. But the reality is, is that we are five minutes late. It is what it is and I'm going to do what I can with this situation, and relax and just enjoy the moment. Which is not changing anything. We're still in the present moment. We still can't go back in time to change things that we would have liked to do differently. But we are making ourselves miserable.
And so I love that idea that genuinely and truly, you compound those negative feelings when you're not accepting the current reality that you're in. So successful women don't fight against the ideal situation, they live in the present moment and are present with what the circumstances currently are. And understand that you can make decisions differently in the future based on what you've learned, and I think that's healthy.
But understand that replaying the situation over and over again in your head about what you would have done differently and wish you could have done. And we've all done it, I've done it countless times. But in being able to acknowledge that, then we can just feel those frustrating emotions, move through and be in the present moment and decide to be calm and peaceful in the current circumstances that we're in.
Another thing that successful women do consistently is that they are curious about their unwanted thoughts and behaviors, instead of being judgmental about them. So for example, with me, it's been hard for my brain a little bit not to look back on that situation and think what would I have done differently?
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