Catherine 6/06/2020

AP Biology Check-in

Short write up
This final project went very well, in my opinion. Because the project was broken down into
multiple checkpoints and steps, it was a lot easier to stay on top of things and get them done on
time. One of my struggles is time management, so breaking down the process definitely helped
a lot. I think that the process went really well. Research went well - the difficult part was figuring
out what to do when certain information was absent or an issue came up. However, these
issues were resolved fairly quickly. The Pokémon card portion of the project ended up being
surprisingly time consuming, but that was due to my insistence at making it look as polished and
as close to a real Pokémon card as possible. The final part of the project was to actually create
the art piece. I somewhat struggled with this, because I was unsure of what style I wanted to
use, or how detailed I planned to get. I eventually just picked a direction to go in after playing
around a bit sketching and finding something that I thought worked. I decided to go for
something simplistic using light orange lines because I found that color appealing, though the
Jersey Devil would not actually be that color. My piece ended up more artistic and less realistic
then I had anticipated right before I even started this project. I decided to just draw the head of
the Jersey Devil because I did not want to struggle through drawing the body and anatomy of a
creature that doesn’t exist, especially after I suffered through that while creating the Pokémon
card. Eventually, the piece started to come together, and I was pleased with the result, so that is
what I have turned in. Overall I enjoyed this project, though it did somewhat interfere with work
for my other classes since everyone assigned work and projects at the same time. I wish the
due dates hadn’t been moved up to an earlier date, but at least I am done now.
:)

12 Vocabulary Words
1. Reproductive isolation: Biological barriers that prevent members of different species from
interbreeding and producing healthy, fertile offspring. Textbook page 419.

2. Prezygotic barriers: Prevent fertilization from occurring. Includes habitat, temporal,

behavioral, mechanical, and gametic isolation. Textbook page 419.

3. Postzygotic barriers: Prevent a zygote from developing into a healthy, fertile adult through
reduced hybrid viability, reduced hybrid fertility, and hybrid breakdown. Textbook page 419.

4. Hybrids: Offspring produced by interspecies mating. Textbook page 419.

5. Habitat isolation: Two species that occupy different habitats rarely, if at all, encounter one
another if living in the same area and not separated by physical barriers. Textbook page 420.

6. Temporal isolation: Species who reproduce or mate during different time periods (time of day;
season; year) cannot combine their gametes. Textbook page 420.
7. Behavioral isolation: Certain species have unique mating rituals or behaviors, forming
effective reproductive barriers. Behavioral rituals enable mate recognition. Textbook page 420.

8. Mechanical isolation: Anatomical and morphological differences prevent successful

completion in an attempt at mating. Textbook page 420.

9. Gametic isolation: Sperm of one species is unable to fertilize the eggs of another species due
to various reasons, such as biochemical mechanisms. Textbook page 421.

10. Reduced hybrid viability: In successful fertilization occurs, the genes of interspecies parents
may interact in a way that impair a hybrid’s development or survival. Textbook page 421.

11. Reduced hybrid fertility: Many hybrids are sterile and unable to reproduce. If the parents’
chromosomes were in different numbers or were structured differently, meiosis in hybrids may
fail to produce normal, viable gametes, thus remaining sterile. Textbook page 421.

12. Hybrid breakdown: Some first generation hybrids are fertile, but their offspring are not.
When they mate with one another or either parent species the offspring is feeble as well as
sterile. Textbook page 421.

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Link to information / outline sheet (if needed):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SASwrTinu_rb15fu8lbJNL90jJWKPexbQY854cmI84/edit