Chapter 27

In Biology this afternoon, Ms. Grace was walking back and forth, explaining another theory.

"A pearl is formed in an oyster when a foreign object, like a grain of sand, is stuck in its shell," she said. "The oyster is in great pain, but if the object doesn't kill her, nature covers the object with the oozing that forms into a pearl."

Then she went on about the jellyfish, "If the environment provides the jellyfish no food, they would grow food inside themselves to feed on. They stay in the sunlight all day to photosynthesize. At night they go into deep water where there is a lot of nitrogen to fertilize. It is called 'adaptation'  everyone. We all have to adapt to any harsh conditions that life throws at us because it's our natural gift."

I listened, thinking the