Jamie+F

toc = = = = my blog

= = = __//About me//__ = I enjoy playing video games and reading a lot of different books. Also I'm looking forward to working on my new car. I have an interested in History and anthropology. I hope to go to college to study them and also get a job involving them.

=Red Oak=

Picture taken by me
 * information to find:**
 * 1) Name: Red Oak
 * 2) scientific name: //Quercus rubra//
 * 3) Organism that infects tree: A micro organism Phytophthora ramorum causes sudden oak death
 * 4) Provides habitat or food for... (don't guess, research): Deer, squirrels, and birds
 * 5) Justify classification of tree to related trees - create classification scheme as a class, identify related species: most oaks have acorns
 * 6) Commercial use of tree: wood crafting
 * 7) Twig characteristics: small greenish brown to dark brown
 * 8) Where tree is found in the world (native to pa?): southeast Canada, northeast US, also can be found in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas
 * 9) Draw or find a picture of a drawing of the leaf to show to the class.

Info found: http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/com/elements/issues/16/oakche-eng.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_rubra http://ostermiller.org/tree/redoak.html

=White Pine=


 * Information to find:**
 * 1) Name: white pine
 * 2) scientific name: //Pinus strobus//
 * 3) Organism that infects tree: fungus called blister rust
 * 4) Provides habitat or food for... (don't guess, research): Forrest birds, squirrels
 * 5) Justify classification of tree to related trees - create classification scheme as a class, identify related species: all pine trees have some type of needles and pine cones.
 * 6) Commercial use of tree: were used as masts, Lumber, food, medicine
 * 7) Twig characteristics: Pale red-brown, flexible
 * 8) Where tree is found in the world (native to pa?):northeastern America such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Maine
 * 9) Draw or find a picture of a drawing of the leaf to show to the class.

picture from [] Info found: [] http://www.cirrusimage.com/tree_eastern_white_pine.htm

=Histology=

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=Creature Creation=

//(This picture may look weird because i just took a picture with my camera. Because for some reason my saved project from my computer won't work on this computer and my computer doesn't take snapshots.) //

Kreacher

Our story begins on a remote island in the South Pacific Ocean. ON this island lives a creature named…… Kreacher. He lives with his family on the island which is totally populated by this very rare species. Kreacher has a hard protective exoskeleton and ten legs the front two are claws used to catch food. Also he has a pair of wings which lets him fly around the island when needed. He is able to walk on land and fly around the island for a short time because his body has adapted to store a small amount of water to keep his gills wet. Most of the time Kreacher eats other marine animals like clams, plankton, sea stars, and some marine plant life. In dyer situations this species will even eat each other. Kreacher and the rest of his family live most of there life in the water around the island though sometimes at night they will fly around the island and eat insects. This species can live for fifteen to fifty years. Kreacher is only five so he still has a long way to go. That is unless he gets caught and cooked into someone’s dinner. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

=Catalyst Activity:=



I learned in the activity that tere are several foods that had a high reaction and a very low reaction. For example it seems that bananas have the most catalase. Bananas reacted to all three temp. they have the biggest averages f all 4 foods in my graph. The food that had the smallest reactions was milk. It got a one in most of the experiments (all temps. reacted at one except in one persons experiment).To me it seems that certain temps. make enzymes more or less active. Room temp. in these foods has the highest activity. I think that fruits have more catalase because on the graph they had the highest reactions.

Is catalase in all foods?

It seems that catalase is in most living organisms that are exposed to oxygen. Most of the food we eat was once a living thing so it probably has catalase. Sources: [] []

=Bio-molecules Activity:=

Questions:

1. Apples had: simple sugars, some starch, and fat Bananas had: simple sugars, starch, some fat Egg Whites had: proteins Milk had: Some simple sugars, some starch, proteins, fat 2. The simple sugars and the starch where high in bananas. The banana also had high reactions in the catalase activity. 3. I learned that both apples and bananas have the most simple sugars out of the foods we tested. Also in the catalase activity apples and bananas had some of the most reactions.

=Biomolecules Webquest=



=Light Intensity Act.=
 * Results:**

{ Light Intensity- Photosynthesis depends on light. So light intensity is very important. If there isn’t enough light Photosynthesis won’t happen as fast or at all. { Wavelength and Energy- { Pigment Colors- Certain pigment colors reflect only certain wavelengths of visible light. They absorb the wavelengths and help the process of Photosynthesis. Wavelength and light intensity are very important to Photosynthesis. If there is too much or to little of each then photosynthesis will not be conducted properly or to its best quality. As we saw in the activity if there is not enough light intensity like 0 for example there will be no ATP created. Also in the activity we found that a wavelength between 400 and 500 results in the most % of maximal ATP. But a good amount of ATP is made in the 600 to 700 range as well.
 * Background Info:**
 * Explanation:**

=Photosynthesis Web-quest:=

1. What is photosynthesis? The process plants go through to make glucose and oxygen witch keeps everything alive.

2. What types of organisms carry out photosynthesis? List 3 groups. Plants, grass, and diatoms

3. What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis? What is the translation for the chemical equation? Six molecules water plus six molecules carbon dioxide yields on molecule glucose plus six molecules oxygen. 6CO2+6H2O – C6H12O6+6O2

4. Look at your equation in number 3 and answer the following questions: a. What are the raw materials or reactants needed to carry out photosynthesis? Water and Carbon dioxide b. What are the products of photosynthesis? Glucose and Oxygen c. What energy source is needed in the reaction? Sunlight

5. Consider a plant as the photosynthetic organism. a. In what part of the plant does photosynthesis occur? The leaves b. What specific cells are involved? Mesophyll Cells (Palisade parenchyma region is where most of the photosynthesis happens and Spongy parenchyma region). c. What specific organelle is involved? Chloroplast and chlorophyll

6. How does the plant get the raw materials needed for photosynthesis to the plant part where photosynthesis occurs? The plant absorbs carbon dioxide through its leaves (stomata) and the water through its root system.

7. What is a stoma and of what value is the stoma to the plant in its efforts to carry out photosynthesis? The stoma is where enzymes take the carbon from carbon dioxide and combine it with hydrogen and oxygen to make simple carbs. (Dark reaction).

8. Explore the organelle that is responsible for the process of photosynthesis. What are found inside the organelle and how do these parts aid in the process of photosynthesis?
 * Membrane Envelope ** : Holds the chloroplast together and controls the flow of necessary materials in/out of the chloroplast.
 * Thylakoids ** : Where the light reaction takes place
 * Stroma ** : Where the dark reaction takes place

9. What is the first part of photosynthesis called and where does it occur? It’s called the light reaction it occurs in the Thylakoids.

10. What exactly happens in the first part of photosynthesis?

11. What is the second part of photosynthesis called and where does it happen? It’s called the dark reaction it occurs in the Stroma.

12. What happens in the second part of photosynthesis? Enzymes take carbon from carbon dioxide and combine it w/hydrogen and oxygen. This makes simple carb. Molecules. PGAL is made

13. Are the two parts of photosynthesis connected? If so, explain the connection. Yes the dark reaction needs the energy carriers produced in the light reaction to function.

14. Does the chemical equation that you listed in number 3 tell the entire story of the process of photosynthesis? Why or why not? No because just stating 6CO2+6H2O – C6H12O6+6O2 doesn’t actually tell you the whole process and how it is worked out inside of the cell.

= Yeast Respiration = 1. Bread baking well depends on a precise balance of sugar, warm water, and yeast reactions. Also yeast starts a reaction with sugar and other componants to make bread rise. 2. Dependent- How the yeast reacts Independent- The percent of sugar (3%,5%,10%) How the yeast reacts and makes the bread rise depends on how much or how little sugar was added. 3. Yeast likes a warm/moist environment that has plenty of food. 4. 3%- the bread rose but not that much 5%- the bread rose high 10%- the bread as high as the 5% but was higher than the 3%. 5. Anaerobic respiration- because it was giong through fermentation (ethyl alcohol; ethanol+co2)

=DNA Respiration Model=

= = DNA Respiration: 1. The DNA twists out of the double helix 2. The two strands split apart 3. New bases come in and connect to the old ones on each strand 4. When 3 is done it creates two new strands of DNA

=Cell portfolio:=



=Genetic Disease: Huntington's Disease=

1. What causes this condition? (There are two ways to look at this one - In terms of DNA, what causes the irregularity, and also, what can trigger this genetic change?) It’s caused by a mutation in a gene on chromosome 4. The coding region of this gene contains the DNA sequence CAG repeated again and again. People with HD have an abnormally high # of these CAG triplets (40+) normally it ranges from 10 to 26 times repeated. How this causes the disease is unknown. The brain cells of the patients accumulate clumps of protein that become toxic causing cell death.

2. How is it diagnosed? Huntington’s Disease is mostly passed on from generation to generation. When a woman is pregnant a doctor can preformed a few tests to see if the baby will have HD. They can take a sample of fluid from around the fetus called Amniocentesis or they can take a sample of fetal cells from the placenta called Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS). When the child is born doctors can do neurological and psychological tests to see if the child has inherited the HD gene mutation. But the tests will not be able to tell at what age they will become sick.

3. Who gets this disorder? Discuss percentages, subgroups of people, etc. Is the disorder genetic in nature or is it caused by something environmental? Any one can get Huntington’s Disease it doesn’t really affect any certain type of person. But most people who get it inherited it from their parents and have a chance of giving it to their own child. HD is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. This means that if you had four kids it is possible that only one of them will have HD. There is a 50% chance of passing it on to your children and this means that they will eventually get the disease.

4. What are the symptoms of this disorder? Symptoms of HD can start between the ages of 30 and 50 it is possible for them to start earlier. Symptoms can include poor memory, depression, mood swings, lack of coordination, uncontrolled movements (difficulty walking), and difficulty speaking. When Huntington’s is in its late stages the person will need help doing the simplest of tasks. 5.Summarize other information that is important. Huntington’s disease affects the thinking, emotion, and movement parts of the brain. Huntington’s can be treated to make you more comfortable but it will not stop or slow the disease. There are medications to ease the depression/anxiety and control involuntary movements. People can take physical/speech therapy to help live more normal lives.

6. What level is your disorder? Huntington’s Disease is Level 1: Single-Gene Disorders