Blog Post #4 - Subjects Found!

The past two weeks, I have been trying to find some people that are willing to be apart of my experiment. Finally, I found some subjects that are willing to be apart of it, so I will need to go to a doctor's office to proceed. I have created a playlist with the results that I got from my survey. I will tell the subjects to listen to the music and after 5 minutes of listening, I will measure their blood pressure and heart rate and see if it works. The setback that I had was where I was going to find my subjects, but I have found them. The next step is to conduct the experiment and then analyze my results. I can apply what I have learned from this experiment and implement it into what I will do in the future. For example, when I am studying and I feel the need to listen to music, I can listen to the music that my experiment said would be best for my heart and blood pressure.

Invertebrate of Your Choice - Hexactinellid

The glass sponge, or known as the Hexactenllid, is a sponge that is classified in the phylum Porifera. Some researchers think that this sponge should have their own phylum, called the Symplasma. This class is divided into six orders, which are Amphidiscosida, Amphidiscosa, Aulocalycoida, Hexactinosa, Lychniscosa, and Lyssacinosa. The glass sponge is not like other sponges. Actually, glass sponges are uncommon because of the fact that they live 450 to 900 meters deep in the ocean. They are found in every ocean, but they are most common in the Antarctic and the north portion of the Pacific Ocean. One unique thing that these sponges have is that they contain a system for conducting electrical impulses across their body. This allows them to respond rapidly to stimuli outside their body. Another cool thing about this species is that some are capable of fusing to form coral reefs and they are not able to contract. One question that I have is, why are they not able to contract like other sponges?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexactinellid