Kidney Mindmap

Genome 1: Life

Beginning with the words "In the beginning was the word": RNA.  RNA is more chemically active compared to DNA.  However it is unstable.  According to the history of life, prehistoric "ribo-organisms" created DNA because of the unstableness.Life consists of two skills: the ability to replicate and the ability to create order.  The key to this is information.  Information is the instructions for building and maintaining the equipment that creates the order.  The letters A,C,G,T are the coded receipts that make up the instructions needed to create life.
Luca is LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor.  It is believed she lived on a warm pond, hot spring, or in a marine lagoon.

Double Fertilization

Double fertilization is the mechanism of fertilization in which  angiosperms, in which two sperm cells unite with two cells in the embryo sac to form the zygote and endosperm.  It endures that the endosperm will develop only in ovules where the egg has been fertilized.  Therefore prevents angiosperms from useless nutrients.  It gives a rise to the zygotes and endosperms.  When the sperm fertilizes the egg it forms the 2N zygote.  After developing into an embryo sporophyte, it becomes dormant.  When the second sperm joins with 2 polar nuclei it forms a 3N nucleus that divides to become an endosperm.

Starfish blog

Symmetry: have radical/bilateral symmetry,pentaradial, five planes of symmetry,

Germ cell layers: 3 germ cell layers; outer layer is epidermis; middle layer is thick called the dermis, composed of connective tissue and exoskeleton, third layer is a single layer is ciliated cells

Coelm: true coelom

Circulatory system: has poor open circulatory system

Feeding: feeds on fine particles in the water, detrrius, or other animals; filter eaters; gut is U- shaped with mouth and anus on the same surface

excretion: doesnt have excretion organs

Nervous system: includes circum- oesophageal rings, have complex nervous systems

crinoidea

ophiuroidea

asteroidea

echinoidea

holothuroidea

Blog 5

Why is it important to define and debate our understanding of intelligence and its origins? How does this relate to you?

Everyone has their own opinions about the definition of intelligence.  There is no definite answer for the definition.
There are many kinds of intelligence.  The different kinds of intelligence shows that we are all different and specialize in different things.  With the different intelligence, we all learn in different ways.  That is why there are many methods in learning.  When teachers teach, they use many ways to show the concepts.

This relates to me because it taught me that there are different ways to learn.  It makes me feel more comfortable when I do not understand the way a teacher teaches.  It is not because I am not "intelligent" it is because I am not "intelligent" with the way the teacher teaches

extra credit blog

I was really confused on biochemistry chapters.  Since my group did the ecology chapters for review and I took environment last year, it was clear and easy to understand.  My favorite lab was the lab about flower pigment and chlorophyll.  It was interesting to see the pigments travel up the filter paper and to see how far it would go depending on the solution used. Another lab that I enjoyed doing was the animal behavior lab.  It was amusing to see the centipedes going towards their preferred habitat.  The lab I least enjoyed doing was the osmosis.  It use confusing because there were two parts of the lab happening at the same time.  I think there are too many online simulations to do on top the blog of the week.  Many people seem uncertain on how to do it when I ask for help.

Cell Wordle

I choose these words because some of these words describe the cell.  It is known as a building block and is the smallest unit of life.  I included Robert Hooke because he was one of the first to describe it after looking through a microscope observing cork.  I also included some of the organelles in a cell.

Bacteria, Virus, Prion, Protists,

Bacteria: A bacteria's complex structure is made up of a cell wall, thin cell membrane surrounding hte ctoplasm. It contains chromosomes that contains DNA needed to make copies of itself.

Virus: A virus' size is much smaller than a bacteria. Its structure is much simple. These infectious particles are made up of a protein coat and a core of either RNA or DNA and sometimes a membranous envelope. They can only reproduce inside the cells of a host.

Prion: A prion is an infectious protein that needs a host to survive. It can cause tissue damage and cell damage.  It can exist in multiple forms compared to viruses.

Protist: Protists are a group of eukaryotic microorganisms. They live in any environment that contains water. Many are photosynethic and are primary producers in the ecosystem. Some protists reproduce sexually while others reproduce asexually.

similarity and differences: cellular respirations and photosynthesis

biochemistry wordle

i choose these words because these are the key concepts of chemistry.  these words are involved in the atomic structures that determines an element.  The atomic structures makes up everything in the world.

Beneficial Bacteria

Lactobacilli: this is a bacteria that helps converts lactose and sugars into lactic acids needed for the prevention of harmful bacteria.  In humans it can be found in the digestive tract and in the vagina.  It produces vitamin K and hydrogen  peroxide that causes infections. It can also be found in yogurt.

Bifidobacteria: This bacteria helps the immune system and good digestion.  It produces lactic acid that causes yeast infections in women. As people get older the number of bifidobacteria in their body decreases.

Streptococcus: This is used to treat diarrhea and helps the digestive system.  It reduces the symptoms of baby colic and AIDS. 

Plant Divisions

Bryphytes: branch of plant science that involves mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.  It is most common in wet areas where they provide a habitat for tiny animals.  They do not contain vascular tissue and therefore are "nonvascular" plants

Pteridophytes: seedless vascular plants that include lycophytes, ferns, whisk ferns,and horsetails.  they have roots that is similar to the early vascular plants.  Early vascular plants formed during the Carboniferius period.

Coniferophyla: It is the largest of the four gymnosperm phylum.  It includes pines, firs, spruces, larches, yews and junipers. There are about 550 species left and only a few dominate the Northern Hemisphere. They are mostly evergreen.  These plants are able to survive stressful environments

Angiosperms: These are flowering, vascular seed plants that produce fruits and flowers.  It is very diverse and it widely distributive around the world.  There is currently 250,000 known species.  There are two classes that make up the angiosperm: monocots and dicots.  Monocots  have leaves with veins running parallel while dicots ahve netlike venation on their leaves.