DNA!!!! Dun Dun DUnnnnnnn

As of like, 5 mins ago, we took a picture of our DNA that we just made. The white strands is the phosphate, or sugar. The orange is the A, the green is the T, which only connect to each other. Then, the blue is the G, and yellow is C. Those only connect to each other. And by doing this, Caryn and I made DNA. We stuck it on other strands of DNA with our class and made one big strand.  Dun, dun, dunnnnn!!

Olga & Greg Pedigree

 This paper that I'm holding up is Olga's pedigree. What I mean by that is it's basically her family tree, but seeing if some diseases that she has in her family will get passed down the line. 

Greg's on the other hand, isn't as big as Olga's family tree, but it's the same prosses. 

Taste Buds.

I would say about a week ago, Mr. Ludwig gave us each a little strip of paper to see who can takes it and who couldn't. Surprisingly, only about two people in my class couldn't taste it. And that was derek and I think curtis. The rest of us could taste it. The strip to me tasted like bad garlic. It was nasty. How some people who can't taste it, don't have that particular gene in their tongue. The rest of us, of coarse does have that gene. Stay tuned for more info =]

Making a baby with Dillion

So Friday, we did a little project on making a baby by getting with a partner and looking at each others traits and seeing what our baby would look like. Dillion and I ended up flipping a coin and got a girl. How this is, is a man gives a X and a Y trait in the sperm. The egg of a women has a XX trait. As I said, we flipped a coin and got a girl. On a piece of paper, it asked questions like eye color, skin color and etc. And by flipping a coin, we determined how our daughter would look like. With a brown hair girl and a blonde hair guy, our daughter would have black hair, how, I have no idea. And with blue eyes and hazel eyes, she will have brown. It was kind of weird, but today, we got to draw on how she looked like. Dillion, now his drawing of her wasn't pretty. She looked like a monster. Mine on the other hand, was ok. Better than his. But it was a pretty fun experiment.

Babies and Cloning

Yesterday, we watched a small video about cloning. All they did was stick a tube like thing in the membrane and took the nucleolus and put it into another cell or egg. Thats how one cloning was in the video. There are reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning.
Reproductive cloning is to try and generate an animal DNA into another animal's DNA who is somewhat similar. Kind of what the video was showing.
Therapeutic cloning, known as "embryo cloning", is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to harvest stem cells that can be used to study human development and to treat disease. To learn about more click here.


http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml#whatis

Making Babies with Caryn

So yesterday, we played with these beads. The beads represented the chromosomes. By mixing the mom and the dad genes together makes miosis. So by mixing them, we made a baby.  All of them did not match each other, but none of them really do.

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