Ryan's Blog: October 2018

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Biodiversity
Goal: better understand the differences in different types of living organisms
Bacteria: single cell, no nuclei, mostly heterotrophic, some decomposers, parasites, mutualists, some autotrophs, chemoautotrophs
Bacilli shape, coxus shape, spirilli shape
Protists: large size, single or multicellular, membrane bound organelles, complex DNA and nucleus
Mix of parasites, autotrophs, heterotrophs, primarily aquatic
Plants: lower plants are primitive and simplistic and upper plants
Lower: things like moss
Higher: plants like bushes and flowers and such
most are photosynthetic
Materials: microscopes, prepared slides

Sickle cell anemia: identifying sickle cells which can cause blood clots and lack of oxygen to the body parts resulting in organ failure
Gel electrophoresis to seperate hemoglobin proteins, sickle cell is negative charged and will go positive side
Materials: electrophoresis machine, pipet, gel plate, salty solution.
Transcription and translation- meant to show us how genes work
Two step process: transcription in the nucleus and Translation in the cytoplasm
Genetic architecture: get a better sense of how alleles fit together, and determine what the parental phenotypes were through looking at the offspring
Materials: Punnet squares, Rebop, random alleles in an envelope.

Biological chemicals lab

Testing to see examples of chemicals in food
Materials: testing solutions, benedict’s reagent, Sudan 3, biurets reagent, water, chicken broth, egg proteins, lugols iodine
Looking for color change in different foods
Measuring vital signs at rest
Measure resting heart rate
Measure blood pressure systolic and diastolic
Materials monitoring systems

Lab October 2nd

Mitosis and cytokinesis same thing

Most of the cells life is spent in interphase

Five stages of mitosis