Literature Fables

The Fox And The Goat:
In this fable, I think the maxim is that you should not trust everything you hear because if there really was going to be a drought, I am sure the goat would have heard by now.

The Crow And The Pitcher:
In this, fable the crow had to drink water to survive. So, the moral would be to make use of your surroundings and do what you can to survive.

The Fisher and The Little Fish:
In this fable, the fish wanted to be released by the fisher but he would not let him go. The moral is that you should be happy with what you have and if he had trusted the fish, he may have been betrayed.

The Four Oxen and The Lion:
The oxen had a fight and split apart making it easier for the lion to kill them. The maxim of this is that you should stick together no matter what and that four forces are much better than one.

The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing:
The maxim of this fable is that looks can be decieving. The wolf put on the "clothes" of the sheep to look like one but then it killed the sheep making a meal for himself.

Ask a Geneticist

I learned from this reading that one human chromosome is made up of two chimp chromosomes. Also, humans and chimps started out the same and then about 5 million years ago, the two seperated and in that time, the genomes changed too. I also learned that only complex organisms like humans have more than one chromosome.