What's Alive??

So in our class, we were given several different things and we were to determine if they were alive or not. We also had to gather plants and animals that we thought were living things. Then we put all of the objects together inside a damp paper towel and inside a zip-lock baggie with air in it and left it by the window for a week. After a week, we opened up and determined whether or not everything in there was still alive or not.

Our results were a bit surprising to me. Our group had a cricket in the bag, and i thought for sure he was going to die. When I saw that he was still jumping around in the bag, I was shocked. We had a popcorn kernel in there too, along with some beans, and those started to actually grow. It was incredible that in the short time and limited space and soil, they managed to grow so much. We even had nematodes by the end of it, and they certainly weren't in there to begin with!

Life is certainly an interesting thing. You really don't need a whole lot to sustain life and flourish. You can even create new living things if in the right situation. It's the simplest and the most complicated concept in the world today. It reminds me of a quote from the movie Jurassic Park that Jeff Goldblum's says. "Life finds a way."