Time, Love, and Memory

1. Genetic materials affect organism behavior.
I think this key idea is crucial because this links ecology to molecular biology.  Using DNA to explain behavior, scientists created a link between the two subjects.  In our biology class, we need to learn about both molecular biology and ecology.  Through this book, I further understand about ecology and how we must learn both behavior and about the genes in order to understand biology.

2. Organisms do learn from experience.
Again, this relates to ecology because it can be seen that organisms have the capacity to learn.  This is crucial because in nature an offspring might need to learn from their parents.  This key point relate to our curriculum using ecology as a backbone for me to further explore the world of animal behavior.

3. Scientific experiments are crucial in establish conclusions.
This whole book established itself on scientific experiments.  Though some may be cruel, most of the experiments do prove something.  In our class, we too conduct experiments, but we conduct them in order to understand the curriculum better.  Scientific experiments help explain a lot of confusion from just reading text and create a better understanding for students.