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**EQ1 - How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet?** toc

=Will = First of all, something so small can affect an organism because all of these small things work together to create something bigger, and work together as a community. If something that is involved with in this community fails, then the entire thing collapses. So in an organism, if this tiny thing were to be heart cells or kidney cells and something went wrong, maybe the entire organism would fail as well. As a community, if one small organism or object involved in the community fails, then it is possible for the community to fail. On the planet, if one cell or bacteria happened to go wrong by killing anything in it's way, and reproducing tons of other cells or bacteria, then they could take over the world. But, all of this could be turned around. For example, if one small cell or bacteria thrives, then it is likely for the entire organism or object to thrive. If one child suffers from abuse or neglect, it can affect classmates or even the community. This is the same with a community or planet

Bryant: Yea. one thing fail, everything else fails. =Iraj=
 * Victoria**: You are so lucky you get to write first, you can't copy anyone, so if some one else has the same thing as you it is their fault. Yeah that basically is right but you didn't say how it ,makes the community fall. You forgot the __back to top__
 * Helen:** I agree with the example you used that said if one child suffers from abuse, it can affect the whole community. Its a good example.
 * Sofia:** Yes, everyone must not fail or else something bad would happen.
 * Mrs. B**: I think you answered this from the perspective of a cell, not a virus/bacteria/protist. Are there any specific examples of VBP "getting out of control" in the world?
 * James:** I agree, if something fails in a system, everything else will break down together with them.

Something small, can affect an organism because, the small things work together to create the bigger organism. If any errors occur, then it can damage the organism. For example, if the cells in a human are infected with virus and the cells aren't working properly the human could be damaged. They could be infected with the flu or a disease that can even kill the person. This also affects a community because the same virus could be passed on. Sneezing, coughing, and not washing hands, are some of the ways it can be passed on. It also affects the planet because if that one virus keeps attacking cells, it could wipe out a whole nation. Bryant: Nice picture!!! And I like the virus infecting all the cells. =Bryant= If one cell malfunctions, it will affect the tissues and, like a fire, affect the organism. If a virus infects one cell, the virus' genetic material (DNA) takes over the cell's functions and uses its machinery to make more copies of itself. Then, when the virus bursts out and go and 'conquer' more cells to make more copies of itself. And if the white blood cells don't do something about it, the organism might seriously damage or, even worse, die. While the organism is still alive with the virus, he/she/it could go around and infect other organisms with its deadly virus without even knowing it. And it spreads from organism to organism, from communities to communities, from cities to cities, from nations to nations, and slowly the population of the world will have a dramatic decrease in number.
 * Iraj**: I don't think I answered it right.
 * Victoria**: You left out how they effect the planet, but other then that it is OK, the picture looks like mash mallows, You forgot the __back to top__ too
 * India:** isn't that kind of short? You should have added more reasons, or gone into more detail.
 * Helen:** I think you should maybe add more examples? And you need to explain your picture. But I'm with you on "small things work together to create the bigger organism."
 * Mrs. B**: I like how add something about how they spread. Has an entire nation ever been wiped out by a VBP....what about the Aztecs?
 * James:** I think you could have maybe added more facts to it.

http://www.ct.gov/dcf/lib/dcf/wmv/images/fire.jpg =**Timothy**  =  A simple virus can affect an organism, because when a bacteria reproduce, sometimes the cells would break. A virus reproduce by attaching themselves onto a host cell. When a cell break, the organism would start feeling sick and have symptoms. When the immune system cannot fight off the virus, the organism can die. A virus would affect the community like HIV or AIDS. The picture below shows what HIV and AIDS virus look like. A Virus would be passed on to other people, eventually spreading all over the world, infecting everyone. The planet can be affected when a virus infects a plant cell. When enough plant cannot fight off the virus, they would die. When enough plants die, there would be no photosynthesis, so there would be no air for the whole world to breathe.
 * Evelyn**: Didn't Mrs. B say NOT to write: Cells make tissues, tissues make organs.....blah, blah, blah?
 * Victoria**: Yeah thats right, she said that she read the cells make tissue thing 60 times already. If it was Ms. Mcdaid she probably delete your paragraph.
 * Katherine**: Err. the cells tissues and organs theory is a bit over. And i don't really get how the fire picture relates to your answer. But the rest are good.
 * Victoria**: I think the Fire means doom, you forgot the __back to top__ too!
 * India:** Yeah, EVERYONE wrote the same thing last time. Maybe you should, i don't know...re- write that? Oh and the fire means like when he said "If one cell malfunctions, it will affect the tissues and, __//like a fire//__, affect the organism."
 * Harry**: Your wording is not very clear Bryant
 * Helen:** Well, I agree with you for the fire part. because it starts small then keeps growing, and it affects something big. But, like they said, Mrs.B said not to write cells make tissues and tissues and organs and yeah.
 * Mrs. B**: Good addition with bit about white blood cells, but we seem to kind of be saying the same things over and over. Also, do you think if one cell is infected that the whole organisms will die...just like that? Our body does defend itself pretty well most of the time!
 * James:** You forgot the part where we can defend ourselfs.


  http://www.bioblog.it/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/virus_hiv_aids.jpg

A Bacteria can affect an organism, because bacteria can be found all over the world and in people's bodies. Bacteria can be found inside you stomach and digestive track. The picture below is the bacteria that can be found inside our intestine. They breat down molecules that we cannot. Most bacterias are either good for us or harmless, but there are also bacteria that can harm us, like the Bubonic Plague. A Bacteria can affect the community because bacteria are found in food that can help humans, such as yogurt. The Bacteria can also affectthe community be recycling. Some bacterias are decomposers, and help our community. Bacteria can also affect our planet by fuel, environmental clean up, as well as health and medicine; But the most thing that affects our planet is oxygen. Bacteria helps produce oxygen to help our planet. Some bacteria use the process of photosynthesis for food, which creates oxygen for us to breathe! Yay, GO BACTERIA!  http://www.promolux.com/english/images/bacteria.jpg Mines so long. I don't know why, but the first paragraph's font is huge, even though I put it on normal. Back To Top =Evelyn= (new and updated) Well this relates to machines in a way. If a machine was missing one small gear or one small screw that machine could have a misfunction and the entire thing would be useless. So if 0 didn't exist then 10 would be 1 and 100,000,000,000,000 would be 1. Small things all work together to create something big. Everyone should work together if they want to accomplish anything. without oxygen we wouldn't exist, correction, most living things wouldn't exist. This is good time for me to bring up dominoes, if one domino falls they all fall. You may be thinking, it's just one small thing! Well that small thing happens to play huge role in your existence! When you step on an ant. It could effect the whole colony of ants. it could have been leading the other ants to a food source. Well what will happen to the other ants? They don't know where the food is! Yes that's right, THEY'LL ALL STARVE TO DEATH! Why? Because you foolishly stepped on the ant. So if VBP didn't exist then the world would be very, very different. The Bacteria in your digestive system help you break down chemicals your body can't brake down by themselves. Decomposers are also useful, they're job is to break down dead things. So without them there would be a bunch of dead stuff everywhere! Cells work together to create or accomplish something. So what I have to say is: "If one falls, they all fall." Back To Top
 * Evelyn**: Yeah your answer is a bit long...
 * Mrs. B:** Evelyn, for goodness sake don't make people feel bad about long answers!
 * Victoria**: I don't get the first sentence, you started out with a virus then you talk about bacteria reproducing? You forgot the __back to top__ too!
 * Katherine:** I like how you use HIV and AID for example. Oh yeah I don't get the first sentence either. Bacteria reproduces by itself and a virus needs a host.
 * India**: I GOT SO CONFUSED WITH YOURS. I thought it was two different peoples separate paragraphs. VERY MISLEADING. TUT TUT.
 * Helen:** I like how you have pictures for the virus and bacteria. But I kind of got confused with the first sentence.
 * Timothy:** I do have a back to top Victoria! It is under my bacteria picture.
 * Timothy**: By the way, I did my answer in two paragraph, one about how a virus can affect and another one about how bacteria can affect.
 * Mrs. B**: Excellent and very thorough answer! Everyone should be looking to this as a post that meets all the standards. Nice job with a specific example of HIV. Where in the world is this really an issue...on the verge of being out of control?
 * James:** I like how you have a lot of example like HIV and AID, nice.
 * Katherine**: Exactly, like domino affect. But I don't get the numbers part.. and the ants.
 * Victoria**:That is true in some way, but not true in another. I mean if in the Earth one person dies that doesn't mean every one dies
 * Victoria**: finally some one who remembered the __back to top__
 * India**: tut tut tut Evelyn, a million spelling mistakes. Its cool, i fixed them. Because I'm nice like that.
 * Helen:** It IS like domino affect, and i agree with you on "If one falls, they all fall." But I dont get the 0 and 100,000,000,00,000 and 1 part.
 * Will:** I think that the domino affect is a really really good example
 * Sofia:** This reminds me of something in a movie, "Every job might be small, but if the job is done well, it means a lot.
 * Alexandre:** Yep, it's just like the domino effect! I agree with everything you say =]
 * Mrs. B:** Redo this...its not specific to VBP. This is an analogy to cells perhaps? Try to use real examples of how VBPs can affect an organism, community, planet.
 * James:** I agree, it is like the domino effect.

=Victoria=

This Below is __**NOT** swearing__ . .! .!@ .!@# .!@#$ .!@#$% .!@#$%^ .!@#$%^& .!@#$%^&* .!@#$%^&*( .!@#$%^&* .!@#$%^&* - =+ You see, all that started with a little dot! This is sort of similar to the question. How //does// something so small affect an organism, community, or planet? Well just like that small dot ot all start with one virus. Lets make it virus X. Virus X came out of a cell and start floating around, it found a cell it can get in so he injects his genetic material. Now, after the reproduce there are a lot of virus X juniors which attacks its organism's cells. Soon the organism has the X sickness. The organism comes in contact with other organisms and they catch on the X sickness as well! Soon the whole community has the X sickness and then pass it on to the surrounding community. Soon the whole planet X has the X sickness. Wait, it might pass the X sickness to other planets! See, now we might catch the X sickness as well! And all that started with the virus X.


 * Victoria**: I put this picture together myself, hope you don't mind Ms. B, The one with the crown is virus X and the ones around him are virus X juniors
 * Helen:** Nice picture. I like how you started with the dot and did that with those signs. It helps get a better idea. But I kind of got lost in the middle.
 * Sofia:** All the X sickness, X virus and ect is confusing me a little, good example thou.
 * Mrs. B:** I like your picture...it adds to the text. Has there been a virus or bacteria yet that has taken over the world? Could you support your text with a specific example? You haven't really added anything new to the conversation.
 * James:** Nice picture, I like how you used explained the process of virus multiplying with X,

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=Katherine= Virus and bacteria cannot be seen with naked eyes, they are also smaller than our cells. Bacteria multiply fast, as fast as that it doubles every 20 minutes like what we did in our class with beans and we ended up with a bunch of beans in the 8th generation. But most of the time they are not harmful but even helpful. Before the bacteria changed our climate and then we have oxygen! So without them we probably won't be alive since there is no oxygen. Also bacteria helps us with cleaning, and they help us break down things we can't in our body.

Virus attaches onto a host and injects its genetic material and start 'copying' a bunch of viruses, when the host is crowded with new viruses, it either bursts open and release the viruses, or they leave without doing any harm. But when a organism start feeling sick and catch something like flu, common cold, that's when the viruses broke the cell. Then someone sick may pass the virus to somebody else. By coughing, sneezing and more then everyone will be infected. Like Evelyn said, it is something like a domino effect. One falls, everything else falls too. One person gets sick, it spreads and the whole community is sick. If you watched the movie Resident Evil, you'll know that this specific virus infected the whole planet, everyone caught the virus and only some people survived. That's how a simple virus can affect a planet. DOMINO AFFECT.

Image: '[|Like Dominos]' www.flickr.com/photos/44124395142@N01/60765591 Will: ( kinda copied Evelyn's?) Back To Top
 * Victoria**: Cool Picture, Dominoes pizza! I agree to the answer. I don't I would watch that movie
 * India:** I've seen that movie! ITS REALLY SCARY.
 * Helen:** I agree about how viruses spread and infect the whole planet and the part about bacteria giving us oxygen long ago. Ive seen that movie too!
 * Victoria**: Yeah a little, but it might have been a coincedence
 * Mrs. B:** Nice job giving a specific example from a movie. I also appreciate that you added the part about how the disease spreads. Has anyone talked about how we prevent the spread? Picture is not too relevant.
 * James:** Nice example from Resident Evil.

=India= How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet?

When Viruses multiply, after injecting their DNA they occasionally break the host cell, if they did this enough times, and the rest of the body didn't co-operate to repair the broken cell, then the virus could destroy the Organism. But, if the organism made contact with another organism, even by simply sneezing, in their community another this virus could spread, like a disease. If they carried on making contact and spreading, they could effect their whole community, or even, their planet! To make matters worse, if there were no bacteria for medicine, then the planet would collapse from __any__ disease, they also wouldn't be able to cure any viral disease, because anti-biotics have no effect. Bacteria also photosynthesise, and they used to before life began to make the world breathe-able for us, without oxygen, the whole of the human population would last 3 minutes. And bacteria is in our stomachs, breaking down the food that we can't, without THAT, I'm sure something very bad would happen to the host organism.

ORGANISM DYING FROM VIRUS. FLU VIRUS

( 180 words! Count if you like.) Spreading disease: http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban170l.jpg Flu virus: http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban1214l.jpg Helen: Yeah, Anti-biotics don't work on viruses, only bacteria. Timothy: Really good info. Funny picture too! It tells you that virus can spread everywhere! Mrs. B: Nice job talking about some prevention! You need to explain how your picture relates, not just give it a title. Patrick: I think it was a good answer but it would have been nice to have a little more explanation of the pictures.
 * James:** Nice answer, but needs some explanation on the pictures.

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=Harry=

A lot of my vision on how something so small can affect an entire species has already been said, so I'll re-cap with my notes and insights. A virus invades a cell in which it reproduces and can either leave a cell when it has finished reproducing or it can destroy the cell. If the latter occurs the viruses spread and the organism starts to feel a little bit sick. if the immune system hasn't been built up, then the virus could spread rapidly through the body, destroy countless cells and if they immune system fails, kill the host. This doesn't benefit the virus, so it has to be transmitted by any means. As afore mention, this is comparable with the domino effect. one after another, our race could fall. From http://www.bofunk.com/media/images/_domino.jpg

Timothy: Really interesting, but too many people doing about dominal effect. Mrs. B: You didn't add anything to the conversation. You can have the same general ideas, but you need to add something new to the conversation...maybe a specific example. Patrick: I too think that the domino effect has been used a lot. I would try to come up with a better example. By the way, I think the picture is pretty funny. Back to top
 * Helen:** I agree with the domino affect alittle. But I'm kind of confused all together... ?
 * James:** Funny picture, Interesting.

=Helen (REDO)= How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet? <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Something so small, like a virus can infect an organism because when a virus reproduces’s, most of the time it damages the cell. And more and more cells could get hurt and damaged which will affect the host somewhat. Also, if there’s a disease caused by viruses, bacteria, or protozoan’s than it can spread really quickly. For example, malaria. It is spread by a type of mosquito and it affects a lot of the population, which affects a community of a location. Or even the whole planet. Bacteria affects us in many good ways. It helps break down molecules we can't digest ourselves, clean-up etc. And it’s in lots of food you like too. Long long before, bacteria photosynthesized, giving everyone oxygen. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Bacteria multiplies really fast so if you use a anti-biotic, then one bacterium might get immune to it, then it will produce more and more immune bacterium, which will affect the host. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It's kind of like fire because fire spreads really quickly, just like viruses and bacteria. <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(10, 4, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 85, 0);"> [] Mrs. B: Helen, if you are going to use an analogy, you need to show how it compares. Why is a business live a virus or bacteria? Maybe you are thinking of cells building up to an organism? Redo this, please. Evelyn: WHY IS EVERYONE DOING THE DOMINO EFFECT NOW?! Back To Top =Charlie= <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet? Because they were small. If thy are not small they will not affect so greatly. They are small so that they can enter you body without you knowing. They can attack secretly. They were like brainwashing you to work for them. To help them grow stronger so that they can take over others. And envevtually, they will take over the world. If you don't act immediatly when they just started brainwashing you, you will be took over. And after using you to make them strong enough, you will be no use to them so they will destroy you. They are like a spy in your body hiding from you and attack suddenly.<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**http://assets.hulu.com/shows/key_art_i_spy.jpg** Mrs. B: Interesting way to look at it...that their smallness is their power! Let's be careful that we don't give them consciousness. They don't know they are like spies. :-) Any specific examples you can use to support your post? James: I like the Brainwashing example. = = =Sofia= How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet? Every big thing is made of smaller things, like humans are made of cells. Teamwork, if one person goes down, the others get brought down too so you have to do well, like in the Bee Movie a bee said, "every job might be simple, but if done well, it means **a lot**." Viruses are another good example, one small parasite virus could affect a whole school just by injecting genetic material into a cell of a student to reproduce more viruses and burst open the cell to leave which causes the student to get a disease like a cold. When he/she coughs or sneezes, it would spread the virus to other students and those students would sneeze and more students will get a cold, soon many people would have runny noses until everyone has it and the school would be empty. Maybe some students would drop out because people get a cold so easily and the school might lose some money. Mrs. B: If one cell is killed by a virus or bacteria does it automatically bring about the destruction of all the other cells or the organism or empty a school? Need to add something to the conversation...maybe a specific example? James: I think there was suppose to be a picture. Back to top
 * Will:** I think that is a great example, along with the dominoes one.
 * Victoria**: I don't get it, what happened to the company?
 * James:** I like the examples that you used.

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">James = How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet?

How does something so small affect an organism, community, or planet. Well first this brings back on how viruses multiply, it first goes in to your body's or a host's cells and injects the DNA to control your cell to reproduce the virus's genetic material making more of them. Then it breaks through the cell and goes to other cells to reproduce, this process gives you diseases like the common cold that harms the host. Then this disease spreads around through maybe contacting or touching another organism giving them the viruses that were in your body. Then this keeps going on and before you know it, everyone on earth is sick, but there is the immune system that fight all these viruses off. If just one virus succeeds in getting in to your body and multiplies, then tons of other viruses will form. So the whole planet can be infected by a disease that was originally caused by just one virus. Same goes with your immune system, if something in your immune system breaks down, then it would not be able to fight off the virus and you will get really sick or might even die. To prevent viruses, the best way to do that is to wash your hands 3 times a day, keep clean. Beware of viruses getting to your body, because viruses dosen't have anti-biotics like bacteria, they can only be destroyed by your immune system, so keep your body healthy. This picture shows a virus running away from washed hands( I did this in paint....)

Mrs. B: Better, but still need to add to the discussion more.

=Patrick= Did you know that tiny things can affect a larger organism, community or planet? For example, if a tiny cell in your body gets infected by a virus, the virus will spread until it takes over every single cell in your whole body, and once it kills you it could spread and spread and spread until it infects an entire community! Eventually, after some more spreading, virus could infect every single living cell in the world. In my picture, a girl is washing your hands. This is a good way to prevent germ spreading (and taking over the world) because one of the most common ways to get a virus is through direct contact. Mrs. B: Good summary of some of the things we have learned, but you do not add to the discussion.

=Alexandre= Eh. I'm re-doing mine again, because SOME PERSON -glares- must've edited mine out for some really weird, psychopath reason. Okay, starting from now on, these words will count as the 100 words stuff. Strange. Anyway, it's mainly because they multiply very quickly. Bacteria can multiply every 20 minutes! So that's why it spreads around rather quickly, and it also depends on how infectious the disease is. I watched the spreading of SARS on National Geographic or something, and then the disease so so spreadable, it could be spread from anywhere. This includes telephones, airplane vents and just touching anything. They started with the first patient, Patient 0. She recieved it by a man sneezing on her. Then she travelled around, leaving the virus just by touching the escalator handles. Soon, more people caught it, and brang themselves to the hospital. Even sooner, doctors and nurses caught it. This is how a disease could've been spread. Starting by just one person. The virus can attach themselves to let's say, a traveller. They travel all around the world. This means the disease will infect wherever they go. So that could be another problem to world epidemics. <<< This is the SARS virus

=Marc=

First of all something so small cam affect an organism because all organisms are made of these small things which have worked together to create the organism. So if something goes wrng with these tiny things the organism could be killed. Also, these small things can affect a community because if the organisms work together the community prospers but if the organisms cannot work together the community will fail. Finally, if the community of organisms were to multiply out of control they could take over the world or worse destroy it.