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=Create an organism= = = =About Me=

My name is Brendon Knarr the sport i play is soccer, i am very good to get along with if you get to know me well enough. I love math and science class at school because i think that they are the easiest class in the whole school. I live with my mom and my little sister who is five they an get on my nerves a lot but they have good intensenes. I go to the high school, I'm in 9th grade but i have some class with seniors, juniors, and sophmores, but I also have class with most of my friends like in my science, english, and study halls. I like to read but only certain books like the //eragon// series and the //harry potter// series but that's about it for the reading part of my life.


 * 1) Name
 * 2) scientific name
 * 3) Organism that infects tree
 * 4) Provides habitat or food for... (don't guess, research)
 * 5) Justify classification of tree to related trees - create classification scheme as a class, identify related species
 * 6) Commercial use of tree
 * 7) Twig characteristics
 * 8) Where tree is found in the world (native to pa?)
 * 9) Draw or find a picture of a drawing of the leaf to show to the class.

=Tree= 1. Sugar Maple Dicot 2. //Acer saccharum// 3. Some organism that effects the tree are forest tent caterpillars, fall cankerworm, andthe bruce spanworm. 4. Provides food food for white-tailed deer, moose, and snowshoe hares 5. Clear sap, its fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds,compared to the black maple, the relatives of the sugar maple are the black maple, nourthway maple, and the big tooth maple. 6. Its wood is used for furniture, it is favored as a garden and street tree, and its used for baseball bats and the floor of the NBA courts. 7. Its twigs are reddish-brown,hairless and glossy. 8. It can be found in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and West Virginia. 9. 1. Devil's Club Monocot 2. //Oplopanax horridus 3.// Nothing infects the devil's club //4.// Unkown //5.//Leaves are spirally arranged on the stem, flowers are produced in dense umbels, and the fruit is are small red drupes. It is related to the fiasta. //6.// Its uses are medicine, and food. //7.// Brown and green colored spiny stems. //8.// It does not populate any regions close to use. 9.

=Biomolecule=

What I learned from this exercise was that liver has a high amount of all the substances and that milk and onion don’t have that much but milk has more than onion in the chart. The surprises part of the activity was that milk didn’t have that much of anything in it, because it came from a cow I thought it would be like liver only it would be a little smaller. The connection of the tempature and the enzyme activity is that when they were put into the hot water the enzymes moved fast but when you put the temperature down then the movement of the enzymes went down. The question that I have for this activity is that what would happen if we put the substance in a freezer, and what would happen to the enzymes. It turns out that if you put the substance in a freezer then it will freeze but the enzymes on the substance will still be able to move around. The biomolecules found in this activity are starch, simple sugars, and carbohydrates, and the most of all of them are found in liver, then the next one down would be milk, and the last one would be onions. The results for the catalase test to the three items that I picked was that they all had the substances in them, but they were no the same in the size of how much of the substance was in the food itself, for example the liver was way more positive then the milk and onion, then the milk had more then the onion. Things that I learned from the activity was that some foods have higher concentration of substances then other foods even if they were both vegetables, or meats for example. Also some of the foods had the same thing as a different food or that they were really close to each other when we measured how much of the substance was in the food in the first place.

= = =Biomolecule Web Quest= A. 1. When you increase the heat the hydrochloric acid speeds up 2. The marble chips separate to make little walls that contain the hydrochloric acid in little spaces. 3. When you increase the concentration then each hydrochloric acid divides into two different acids. B. 1. Protein molecules 2. The shape determines the function of the enzyme 3. Denaturing is when the enzymes shape is affected by high temperature, or a extreme pH values. 4. A reaction without enzymes is harder for the sugar to connect because they have to connect at the right angle, and the one with the enzyme it is easier because they both just connect with the enzyme. 5. An enzyme speeds up the reaction because all the sugars have to do is fit into the slots in the enzyme and not connect at a specific place. 6. They are so particular with their reactions because if they are not in the right enzyme or they make a wrong calculation the enzyme will probably die and not be able to protect against certain things. 7. The shape of the enzyme is important because if it doesn’t have the right shape then the sugars can’t go in it to create energy within the enzyme for it to be able to work. 8. The sugars form a chain that continusly keeps going though the enzyme there for making the enzyme reusable. 9. The heat effects the function of the enzyme because when the heat increases then the enzyme moves faster so it can do more work, therefore the enzymes moves faster when the heat increases. 10. No it does not because if the enzyme needs to work on the one substance then if the faster it goes it might make mistakes when it works. C. 1. A condensation is responsible for making large molecules were hydrolysis is responsible for breaking down large molecules 2. Proteins and Carbohydrates D. 1. Proteins are made of amino acids 2. Protein synthesis

E. 1. The Carbohydrates travel to your stomach which breaks it down to juice, which then goes into the intestines which breaks it down more, then it goes into the blood stream as a fat substance.

F. 1. The liver and gallbladder are involved, fat is broke down by using bile and the lipase in your bloodstream then break it down more with the help of the bile.

G. 1. A heart attack occurs when the blood flow to a section of the heart is blocked

H.

1. Primary Structure is sequence of chain of amino acids 2. Secondary Structure occurs when the sequence chain of amino acids is liked by hydrogen bonds 3. Tertiary Structure occurs when certain attractions are present between alpha helices and pleated sheets 4. Quaternary Structure is a protein consisting of more than one amino acid chain.

All this information came from www.biology.com

=Light Intensity=
 * Light || 100% || 64% || 3% || 15% ||
 * Bright || 200 || 200 || 200 || 200 ||
 * Wave length || 425 || 400 || 750 || 600 ||

Wavelength and light intensity is important for photosynthesis because both have to be at the right place so that they can get maximum ATP. However if the light is dark no matter what the wavelength is it won’t change the light so the molecules can do their job and make ATP. The light can make some part of an ATP but the wavelength makes the rest of the material that is required to make an ATP.

Light Intensity-is a physical dimension of light waves that refers to how much energy the light contains Wavelength-the distance between two points in consecutive cycles of a wave Energy-actively working wavelength Pigment- is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength

=Photosynthesis Webquest=

1. Photosynthesis is a process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using the energy from sunlight. 2. Animals, higher plants, and algae 3. The chemical equation is 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy ® C6H12O6 + 6O2, the translation is H=Hydrogen O=Oxygen C=Carbon 4. The materials are hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. The products of it is energy for the organism, 6 Carbon dioxides and 6 water molecules 5. Any part of the plant that is green or has chloroplast in it, glucose, and the organs that are used are green. 6. From the nutrients that they suck up from their roots or the water that they need to survive. 7. A stoma is a pore in a leaf, and it is used for gas exchange in the leaf and plant. 8. Chloroplasts are green and have materials that are in it that can make it possible for the chloroplasts to hold in light and use it as energy. 9. It is called the first light dependent reaction or light stage and takes place in chloroplast that inside of the cell. 10. What happens is that the light is being absorbed into the organ 11. The second part is called light independent reaction (Calvin Cycle) and it takes place in plants that don’t need light for it to produce photosynthesis. 12. It is used to reduce or fix CO2 that is within the organism 13. Yes they are connected because the ATP and NADPH is needed for the second stage to reduce and fix CO2 14. Yes it does because when the Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, and Hydrogen combine with each other they make the other a material that when mixed together with energy, which is in the equation, can process photosynthesis.

=Yeast Activity=

Solution Radius Volume
 * 3% || 14cm || 89.1cm ||
 * 5% || 14cm || 89.1cm ||
 * 10% || 21cm || 301cm ||

State 2 clear, concise conclusions derived from the analysis of the results from the experiments in your class. a. The lowest and middle amount of sugar solution don’t rise as much as the 10% sugar solution, and carbon dioxide was going into the ballon

2. What was the dependent and independent variables in the experiment? Explain. a. The amount of fermentation is dependent and the independent is sugar

3. According to the experimental data, what kind of environment do yeast prefer How did the sugar concentration change the result? Explain. a. They like wet and warm environment, and the sugar change that by changing the yeast so it would rise 4. How did the amount of rising change with the different types of sugar solutions used? a. The least and middle amount of sugar solution rose about the same, but the 10% solution rose higher then the others

5. What kind of respiration did the yeast carry out in the experiment? Explain. a. It carried out fermentation because it does not have oxygen for the use of the aerobic respiration when it rises.

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10% from chunkychipmunkes

5% picture from thugs4life

=DNA Replication Model= Key: The yellow squares are Deoxyribose sugar The blue circles in between the squares are phosphates The line connecting the two nitrogen bases in the first and last DNA example is hydrogen C-Cytosine G-Guanine A-Adenine T-Thymine

=Cell Portfolio=

=Genetic Variation=

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?) A. There are two ways to get this disorder one is the result of a previous inflammation of the thyroid gland. Which leaves a large amount of the cells of the thyroid damaged (or dead) and incapable of producing sufficient hormone. Although the most common cause of thyroid gland failure is called autoimmune thyroiditis, which is a form of thyroid inflammation caused by the patient’s own immune system. The second major cause is the broad category of “medical treatments,” or conditions due to surgical removal of a portions or all of the thyroid gland.

How is it diagnosed? A. It is diagnosed by a physician when they suspect a hypothyroidism, he or she will look particularly at the cardiovascular system, the skin, hair, eyes, reflexes, and body temperature. The physical exam also may reveal an enlarged thyroid, which is called a goiter.

Who gets this disorder? Discuss percentages, subgroups of people, etc. Is the disorder genetic in nature or is it caused by something environmental? A. It effected about 11 million adults and children in the United States, it is a disorder genetic in nature, and the percentage is more than 40%.

What are the symptoms of this disorder? A. The symptoms are fatigue, weakness, weight gain or increased difficulty losing weight, coarse dry hair, dry rough pale skin, hair loss, cold intolerance, muscle cramps and frequent muscle aches, constipation, depression, irritability, memory loss, abnormal menstrual cycles, and decreased libido

Summarize other information that is important. A. If left untreated it will end in sever life-threatening depression, heart failure, or coma. It can often be diagnosed with a simple blood test; however, in some people it’s not that easy and more detailed tests are needed. Also it is completely treatable in many patients simply by taking a small pill once a day, but this a simplified statement, and it’s not always so easy.

What level is your disorder? A. My disorder is Level 3 on the genetic disorder chart