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FIRST. And sir you got a good teacher
He should get a better English teacher though.
Even i know the answer. And i only know the german pokemon names.
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Bisaflor
This sir is awesome.
according to my mom, it would be “question mark”
Mine too!
1st to say it’s the letter A.
you don’t say
I’d be interested when this took place. If it took place.
I want to join your class!
i don’t know WHICK pokemon is Venasaur D:
Can’t tell if trolling….
or not been to Kanto
Or you guys don’t get what he was trying to say, WHICK is understandable because I didn’t get it right away either.
Don´t forget to ask if he is a virgin also…
Can’t tell if retarded…
Or just slowbro…
what’s your professor’s name, Oak? :O did he ask you which starter to choose?
he ask him if he is a boy or a girl
and his name, and his grandson’s name.
And what is his grandsons name.
he also asked what time it is.
and he probably know when you can’t use stuff :p so don’t try to fish with your super rot during class… if you know what I mean
Not that this isn’t totally awesome and that I wish my teachers would do stuff like this, but what on Earth does Pokemon have to do with genetics? What was the rest of the lecture about?
thats what im sayin
genetics is used to determine a pokemon’s IV values
I could easily see this having something to do with the evolution and how traits from Bulbasaur and Ivysaur got passed onto Venusaur. Think before you type, idiot.
I find that a bit of a stretch. Surely you couldn’t spend an entire lecture on genetics pertaining to that. Plus, Bulbasaur’s evolutionary line doesn’t really exemplify evolution, it seems more like maturity and age, which genetics plays even less of a role in.
Well, I’m pretty sure the entire class wouldn’t have been about pokemon, but lots of professors kind of like to start their classes on fun/interesting notes just to get the class interested. I don’t know about you, but I would TOTALLY rather start a class like this than on…um…whatever genetics people talk about first in class.
Pokemon ‘evolution’ has pretty much no relation to the evolution discussed in genetics classes. Evolution NEVER occurs in a single individual; the theory of evolution deals with changes in a population over time – it would be more akin to a population of Bulbasaur eventually growing larger flowers and increasing in overall size over a period of several hundred thousand years, than a Bulbasaur’s bulb spontaneously blooming into a flower.
Secondly, no traits were PASSED from Bulbasaur to Ivysaur to Venusaur. The transition from Bulbasaur to Venusaur is much more like the Bulbasaur simply aging and growing up over time. “Bulbasaur is Experiencing a Growth Spurt!” has far less ring to it that “Bulbasaur is Evolving!”, however, so the game designers called it ‘evolution’ instead.
The only way I can see Pokemon having any relevance at all to genetics involves breeding – passing moves, IVs, natures, and so on from parent to offspring. However, I’m going to guess that most college students aren’t overly familiar with the mechanics behind that, which would make for a poor presentation; this sort of pop-culture intro is supposed to give students something to latch onto as a starting point for the topic.
Just because I do not immediately jump to the conclusion you think is obvious does not make me an idiot.
yay congratulations for making past the first year evolutionary biology course!
It seems like this would be an ‘evolution is nothing like that’ moment.
he got the basics of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian theory of natural selection pretty correct which is far cry from what we know of evolution today, but solid groundwork and the foundation of all modern biology so he’s not wrong
Yeah, sorry, haven’t been able to take a bio course past Organismal Biology I* (it’s not part of my degree path), so I’m not as familiar with evolutionary theory/genetics beyond Darwin and Mendel. The more complicated aspects of the theory were handwaved away, but I’m assuming the basics are still the same… or why would they bother teaching it?
*Taken through a sciences-heavy res college, so I’m guessing it’s more detailed/thorough than the average Biology 101.
“Evolution NEVER occurs in a single individual; the theory of evolution deals with changes in a population over time”
so…like a human body?
if you take cells and use them as an analogy for the population,
a person has cells. cells reproduce (in their own way, w/e) and the body gets larger and better than before. in a way, couldn’t that be called evolution, just on a different, human body scale?
and then just transfer the whole thing to pokemon. really it should work the same way…mostly.
when considering pokemon, “evolution” doesn’t necessarily always have to mean stage 1 to stage 2, right? ^-^
That’s called mutation.
yeah just like caterpillars and bee larvae, that’s caterpies and weedles so why not all the others :O that would be awesome
Cell growth isn’t evolution. A baby does not evolve into an adult. Likewise, an infantile liver does not evolve into an adult liver, it develops into one. You’ve got the same liver (the organ, at least; the cells have likely all replaced themselves) as an adult that you had as a kid (unless you had a liver transplant, in which case the difference is completely unrelated to cell development).
@blergh: there is a reason why the transition from caterpillar to butterfly is called ‘metamorphosis’ and not ‘evolution’. Evolution, by definition, requires a population of animals. Metamorphosis involves radical changes to body structure; while there may be a slight difference between an infantile liver cell and an adult one, it’s not nearly a big enough change to qualify as metamorphosis.
but I mean on the scale of the cells themselves. like you said, not the same ones, right? yes, they do form the same organs. but in a way, couldn’t one say the population of the earth forms the same race, humans?
wat you are regurgitating is the recapitulation theory that was horribly laughed at and what creationist believe is evolution to be. Ah creationists, what horribly misguided group of people
lol? honestly did not expect to be called a creationist.
I only meant it as a metaphor not a fact. plus I like evolution, it’s cool.
Nerd.
Thank you! I take that as a compliment.
” … I’m going to guess that most college students aren’t overly familiar with that, which would make for a poor presentation … ”
You do realize how many sciences classes most colleges make you go through before genetics is even offered, right? No? Thought not …
Yeah, exactly what I was gonna say.
Well, for one thing, evolution is pretty closely tied to genetics in the sense that genes mutate to cause evolution.
Probably evolution…
so much win
Are those the sprites from the Stadium games? So much love. xD
your genetics professor discussed pokemon, OH GOD I THINK POKEMON IN REAL LIFE ARE NOW BECOMING MORE REAL!!!
I. WANT. TO. GO. TO. THIS. SCHOOL. o_O
So I was giving a genetics lecture and I asked my students which pokemon venasaur is, and one of the pupils to the right of the classroom (my right) that looked retarded got really excited and took a picture of me. I am fearing for my life.
Cool story bro.
e. duh.
So…this is why US schools are going down the crapper….
Yes, because our lectures aren’t like this.
Man, I wish I went to Celadon University
OK, seriously, whoever’s story this is, please tell it. What happened?
now that’s a test I would surely pass
To catch them is the real test
To train them is my cause …
i pick the one the bottom right corner
The correct answere is Jigglypuff.
The Flareon looks kinda random there…
according to my mom they’re all pikachu
Dude mine to
Hey guys I was the one who sent this in, haha. Basically, my professor always starts class with short quizzes (which usually count as participation as opposed to accuracy). Anyways, that lecture was about biodiversity, so basically he equated Earth’s abundant diversity to the game, saying that organisms are hugely diverse, just like all the Pokemon are! It was a fun little way to get class started, we didn’t spend all of lecture talking about Pokemon, unfortunately.
Oh, and sorry for saying “whick” instead of “which,” haha.
Well what were the results? Did your classmates know their stuff?
70% got it correct, I was somewhat disappointed.
OMG! Proof! For once something posted on the internet actually DID happen! 0_o
Thanks OP for providing a picture.
pick A bro
i would love it if my teacher had a mlp quiz X3