Today during marine biology we began learning about invertabrates. One particularly important thing we learned is that invertabrates play an important role in contributing energy to the rest of the food chain. So when these invertabrates are effected by pollution and other negative factors it affects the rest of the food chain not only by reducing energy but also if they get contaminated by pollutants they then pass those polutants onto their predators and the rest of the food chain. I also learned that invertabrates comprise 99% of earth’s diversity. These amounts of diversity could completely change the focus of marine biologist research. Also while doing my dissections on my squid and octopus I learned more about the internal and external anatomies of both specimens and of other marine life like them.
