Expert: Walter Hintz - 8/27/2005

Question
Walter, I'm glad that I had found you. It's been two days we've been surfing the internet but with no success. My son has a project to be submitted on Monday: 25 animals and 25 plants with individual information of the ff: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species with images. We can't find such kind of free listings on the internet. I'll be very grateful if you could help us. We are from the Philippines. God bless.

Answer
Hi adel:
 Wow!  50 organisms by monday.  I don't know how much I can help you with this except to tell you that you will go crazy trying to do this on the net.  You need books.  Go to the library and I know there are libraries in the Phillipines.  Find some good biology books especially one on zoology and one on botany.  A bird book would be good.  Stick with one or two Orders.  For example find an insect book and stick with beetles or flies so you do not have to look different phylums and classes.
 I don't know what to tell you about the images except maybe you can copy pictures fronm the books.
 What an assignment.  Either your son is a procrastinator waiting until the last minute or the teacher is rather unreasonable.
 Good luck