Thursday, October 28, 2010

Retreat questions

1. Q: what did the retreat mean to you. A: It was a blend of activity and mental process and Judaics with bonding with others integrated into it as well as a fun experience. It was the perfect way to start out a new year.

2. Q: What did you learn about yourself? A: I learned that I am much more agile than originally thought.

3. Q: what connections to SCIENCE or MATH did you find, or hear, or make with any experience you had? A: to many to list. The different plants and biology of plants, the physics of balance, the rope ladder that looks like DNA, the sturgeon mutation, circulation cut off ETC.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

made by me science questions

1. Q: name 5 cell organelles. A: mitochondria, nucleus, vacuole, cytoplasm and cell membrane.

2. Q: what function does the nucleus have? A: its the controller of all of the cells functions

3. Q: what is a mutation? A: a mutation is a change in the order of A G C or T.

4. Q: what constitutes a living thing? A: it must react to its environment, get energy, reproduce, get rid of wastes, grow and have cells

5. Q; how is a protein made? A: a message is sent to the gene to make a specific protein. A copy is made and messenger mRNA which also is the copy sends itself through the nuclear pores to where it is needed.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

science notes.

organelles of a plant can be found in the previous post.

subject 2:

the nucleus contains dna. this dna divides each each piece of chromatin into new shapes called chromosomes. every organism has a number of chromosomes that figure out everything that will happen with the organism ie sex or eye color etc. inside chromosomes are genes which contain the information to produce many different proteins that are used in each cell. proteins are what make the chromosome decide what cells will be made and what they will do.

subject 3:

how proteins are produced can best be described in the g9 text page 131 figure 4.11