Jessica+Kerr

flat =Cell size lab:= 1. Each cube had the color seep through the inside, but each looks like it went in deeper or it didn't go in deep enough. They all go in 1/2 cm deep, but not all of them seem that way. 2.The smallest one seemed to have a harder time with getting the color on the inside, because its so small it doesn't have enough room to have it look like the others. 3. The volume of the cube, because your observing how far the color goes into the cube, and it helps you figure out the measurement of exactly how far into the cube it goes. 4. If the cell size was any bigger then the efficiency would be a lot greater than it is now.

=You are what you eat:= You are what you eat means to me that, when you eat junk food you are basically unhealthy. When you eat healthy food, I see someone that is really healthy and sporty. I think it means, that everyone is different and they eat food that has to do with their personality. A sporty person would eat fruit, vegetables, and smoothies. Someone who is lazy and doesn’t care about anything would eat food that is easy to eat, like chips and chocolate, effortless to make something healthy.

Questions I would ask:
 * 1) 1. Why is there even junk food?
 * 2) 2. Who is the person that invented unhealthy food?
 * 3) 3. Why would you want to waste your life on junk food?
 * 4) 4. Why wouldn’t they make things that actually help you get healthier instead of false advertisement.

=Extra Credit:=
 * 1) 1. Why is there even junk food? There is junk food because it’s easy to sell and it tastes good. It’s normally cheap, so people rather by something that is processed and already made than taking the time to make healthy things their selves.
 * 2) 2. Who is the person that invented unhealthy food? No specific person has ever actually “invented” food, it has been here since the world first came to be.
 * 3) 3. Why would you want to waste your life on junk food? That is a simple question, people do it because it tastes good and it is easy to purchase. People also do it because people on tv make it look good for you, even when it really isn’t.
 * 4) 4. Why wouldn’t they make things that actually help you get healthier instead of false advertisement? Unhealthy things are processed, so it doesn’t take any manual labor, therefore no one has to lift a finger to make healthy things. Healthy food takes a long process for it to get to the stores and into your home, and people have become very lazy ever since these factories have come up because they don’t have to work that much.

=Biomolecules Food Results:= 1. Onion in Benedict= negative; green, stayed green Black beans in Benedict= positive; lighter green to dark blue

Onion in Biuret= positive; dark green to orange Black beans in Biuret= positive; lighter blue to dark blue

Onion in Iodine= stayed orange Black beans in Iodine= brown to black

Onion in Sudan 4= negative Black beans in Sudan 4= negative

2. The onion research matched with the results of the lab, everything in the lab was shown from the information that was given. Same with the black beans, everything was accurate with the findings on the internet.

3. The results of the test were not what I expected to be at all. I thought that the ones that were going to change shouldn't have changed, and vise versa. The onions, I thought would have changed more frequently, but it was the black beans that changed more with all the solutions. It didn't surprise me that there was no starch in onions, I could have guessed that, same with the black beans. The proteins in your body, which the onions and the black beans both did not have, help your body in many ways that are convenient to you and your health. One thing that i thought was interesting is, when we put Sudan in the black beans, nothing happened, i thought for sure that the color was going to change on that one.

=DNA replication model:= media type="custom" key="25086284"

=Transcription/Translation Flip Book:= media type="custom" key="25199914" =Protein Synthesis Review Questions:=
 * 1) 1. What are the steps of transcription?
 * 2) 1. DNA unwinds
 * 3) 2. One side of DNA “codes for a protein”
 * 4) 3. Genetic code of DNA is a triplet code of 3 nucleotides or bases
 * 5) 4. Each triplet is specific for the coding of a single amino acid
 * 6) 5. Sequence of triplet codes on DNA will specify the amino acid sequence on the protein.
 * 7) 6. Major step is the synthesis of the coded “messenger” molecule-mRNA
 * 8) 7. mRNA is “transcribed” from DNA by complementary base pairing (mRNA has no thymine, which is replaced by uracil).
 * 9) 8. mRNA passes out of the cytoplasm to the ribosome.

2. What are the steps of translation?
 * 1) 1. mRNA attaches to the ribosome
 * 2) 2. tRNA’s attach to free amino acids in the cytoplasmic “pool” of amino acids
 * 3) 3. tRNA carries its specific amino acid to the ribosome
 * 4) 4. rRNA “delivers” its amino acid based on complementary pairing of a triplet code (anticodon) with the triplet code (codon) of the mRNA
 * 5) 5. Enzyme “hooks” the amino acid to the last one in the chain forming a peptide bond
 * 6) 6. Protein chain continues to grow as each tRNA brings in its amino acid and adds it to the chain.


 * 1) 3. List three differences between DNA and RNA.
 * 2) 1. DNA is double-stranded helix, RNA is single stranded helix
 * 3) 2. DNA is composed of deoxyribose sugar, RNA is composed of ribose sugar
 * 4) 3. DNA has Thymine as a pairing to Adenine, RNA has Uracil in place of Thymine as a pairing to Adenine.

4. List the three types of RNA. And state their function (what they do and where they do it).


 * 1) 1. mRNA- mRNA acts as a messenger to tell the cells how to function. DNA is divided in the nucleus into mRNA, then sent out of the nucleus through the nuclear membrane and goes off to ribosomes to create different proteins and control activities within the cell.
 * 2) 2. tRNA- most of the tRNAs function as carriers of amino acids and participate in protein synthesis. However, tRNA also take part in reactions not related to ribosome-dependent translation.
 * 3) 3. rRNA- it forms part of ribosomes; which are involved in protein synthesis. The rest of the ribosome is made of protein like all other organelles in cells.

5. What enzyme is used to produce a new strand of RNA? Transcription begins when an enzyme called RNA polymerase attaches to the DNA template strand and begins assembling a new chain of nucleotides to produce a complementary RNA strand.


 * 1) 6. Which molecule contains the genetic code? Genes

=Turner Syndrome:=


 * 1) Single gene or __chromosomal mutation__? It is a chromosomal abnormality in which all or part of one of the sex chromosomes is absent or has other abnormalities. In some cases, the chromosome is missing in some cells but not others.
 * 2) Other names? Ulrich
 * 3) Symptoms- Girls who have it are shorter than average, non-functioning ovaries, they don’t start their period or develop without hormone treatment at the age of puberty, middle ear infections (hearing loss), some people might have problems with math, memory skills, and fine-finger movements, high blood pressure.
 * 4) Prevalence- One in every 2000 to 2500 lives female births. 0.05% to 0.04% of live births among women.
 * 5) Cause- Monosomy. The complete absence of an X chromosome generally occurs because of an error.

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