Posting consistency

[scubadiva]

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Just curious to see if everyone who posts on the acceptance list also posted on the interview list and vice versa. Would this hold true for most of you out there? Hmm....maybe we can turn this into and sdn interview/acceptance percentage page, if everyone is relatively consistent?

I'l begin.

Yes, I am consistent. I've posted my interviews and my acceptances on the corresponding lists.

Sorry for the strange topic, but this is what happens when you're tired and try to write a lecture on marine flatworms and crustaceans from a college textbook and try to lower this to teenagers!

By the way, they have no appreciation or passion for the fact that algae are NOT plants and think that Ms. Scubadiva is weird for her conviction of their importance and the fact that starfish are NOT fish...they're seastars!

 

[FowlersGap]

actually; aren't algae marine plants?
they photosynthesize...right?
therefore they should be considered plants
i'm from the school of thought that believes that algae fall under the larger category of "plants"
i do share this passion for algae as well; i took a whole class and lab on "marine botany"

 

[Runtita]

I have been consistent with my interview/acceptance posts; I'm 1 for 1! 😉

And about the algae=plant debate: OOH! Let's start a new controversy! 😉

It's refreshing to have something besides MD vs. DO to debate!

 

[NDESTRUKT]

don't some bacteria photosynthesize? that doesn't make them plants does it? i thought algae was in the kingdom protista...even though they photosynthesize, they lack the roots, leaves, and other structures...

then again bio was almost 4 years ago and I'm a mechanical engineer...a far cry from a biologist.

 

[scubadiva]

Gald to hear you like the controversy! Actually, algae do photosynthesize, but they do not have any true roots, stems, or leaves like real plants. In addition, the upper surface of their "leaf" is exactly the same as their lower surface....thereby not making it a true leaf.

It is classified under the Kingdom Protista, a little more specifically under the "plant like protist group" versus the "animal like protist group." I know FowlersGap, I almost am tempted to call them plants due to photosynthesis, but then again there are certain bacteria that can photosynthesize and they are not classified as plants.

In another life, I would have been the female version of Jacques Cousteau, and a marine biologist....but alas, thank God, I am going to be an osteopathic physician! Woohoo!!!

 

[FowlersGap]

perhaps a few species of algae are unicellular organisms that photosynthesize...those should be classified under the kingdom protista
but algae such as caulerpa (killer algae), porphyra (algae we eat in sushi) giant forests of brown algae in the ocean shouldn't really fall under protista but under plants
i suppose we can agree on the fact that there are three types of algae: red green and brown!
but i'm willing to compromise with microalgae being classified under protista and macroalgae under the plant kingdom

 

[WillowRose]

All algae are in the kingdom Protista. Just got finished teaching this to my microbiology class last week. Even though some do form large multicellular communities, none of them are as complex as a tissue.

Yes the brown algae are huge--largest type of algae, in fact. But they are not plants. The only common characteristic of all the Protista is that they do not show sufficient complexity (iow, at least the tissue level of structure) to be placed in one of the other kingdoms, yet they are eukaryotes so they do not belong to the bacterial kingdoms either.

Just FYI,
Willow