Digestive Internet Activity

I personally take in Vitamin C by drinking a glass of orange juice in the morning. I also take in  Vitamin D and Calcium from a bowl of cereal and milk, both coming from milk. I take in potassium when I eat bananas. The similarities between vitamins and minerals are that they both build up the immune system and support regular growth and development. The differences of vitamins and minerals are that some foods have vitamins while others have minerals. Vitamins are organic substances while minerals are inorganic substances. Also that our bodies can absorb minerals through food and supplemets while minerals can be absorbed by the body by water, food and supplements. You can get healthy fats from monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. You can get monounsaturated fats from eating olives or avacodos. You can get polyunsaturated fats from eating fish or cooking with fish oils. It is important to have fat in your diet because when food is scarce your body can always go and obtain the stored fat.

Exploring Mendelian Genetics- What I learned

 I learned that if you cross two parents with two different traits, the offsprings will have a mix of both parent's traits. The child could either have a complete, incomplete and co-dominant trait. The complete dominance is when the dominant allele masks the recessive one. The incomplete dominance is when you don't see expected ratio in the F2 generation. The co-dominance is when both traits are expressed at the same time. I also learned that you can't give people your blood unless their your blood type.

Real Life Genetics

•  http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib162/Week3a.htm

 The assumptions that you must make is that you need to see the genptype of the recessive allele by observing the phenotype of its offspring with the dominant allele.

 You can determine the genotype of an agouti cat by the dominant agouti allele.

 They prefer to work with codominant genes because the homozygous genotype reduces pigment expression across most of the animal.

Develop a table describing the possible genotypes and their phenotypes that could result from a cross between a tortoiseshell and a black cat. Assume both cats are homozygous BB.

 The effect that a striped coat might have on the fitness of a wild cat is that it creates a blotched or bulls-eyed pattern which can cause lack of fitness.

 Yes because white is the dominant phenotype and the other traits are still there but are hidden.

• http://www.stat.ucla.edu/cases/ did mendel fudge his data

 The chance of agreement is between his genetic theory and outcome of his experiments was much too close for comfort.

I conclude that if he did it didn't make a difference in his results because smooth still dominated wrinkled.

 

• http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/blood_types/Intro.html

1. Is a type O possible in this situation? Yes, because since there's 3 different alleles it is possible to have a type O, it just will be recessive.
2. Possible blood types of offspring The possible bloodtypes of offsprings are A, AB, B and O.
3. What blood type would the father be? The father would be AB.
4. What are the potential blood types of the father of my son? The potential blood types are A or B.
5. Who is NOT the father of my grandson?  The person who has the BO bloodtype.
6. Do we all have the same biological father? No

• Read three other student’s blog posts to these activities. You must comment with a positive and a constructive response. Positively comment on something they did well and constructively comment on something they could do better the next time. Check the list of student blog links if you need help finding someone’s blog. You may post comments on someone’s blog from your class or another class as long as it is the correct blog entry

What factors determine allele frequency? Is a dominant allele always the most frequent allele at a locus? The factors that determine allele frequency are Rh+ and Rh-. The dominant allele is not always the frequency allele at a locus.

Manx cats have no tail and relatively long rear legs. What is the genotype of a Manx cat?The genotype of a Manx cat is Ll. Do you expect the frequency of Manx cats to increase over time? Why or why not? Yes beacuase if they still have no tail and long rear legs those are the dominant traits and you will most likely see those than the recessive having a tail and short legs.

Heredity Web Quest

1. The scientists before 2001 were trying to determinethe sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA and identify the about 20,000- 25,000 genes in human DNA.After 2001 they are still analyzing the data they got.The potential benefits to science, medicine, and human life are that they can make us more aware of our surroundings. Doctors could know more about the affects of medicine to help our human life.The public funded universities more people could know more about their project than the private-funded research companies.
2. Not all evidence is because the DNA match isn't satisfied to the burden of being proven guilty.http://www.llrx.com/features/dnareliability.htm. t's harmful beacuse once you upload your personal information publicly anyone can access it.http://www.dnareunion.org/term.php?&__atoken=__NONE__.
3The sex-linked traits to male chromosomes the male is dominant.I found interesting are XX and XXY because even though there's equal female. hey should either have no choice to have children or adopt a kid.
4. The Human Epigenome Project and they are focusing to identify, catalogue and interpret genome-wide DNA methylation patterns of all human genes in all major tissues.They hope to significantly advance our ability to understand and diagnose human disease. http://www.epigenome.org/index.php?page=project

Cell Evidence of Kingdoms

    There are many kingdoms and many organisms that fall under. The kingdoms are Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Protista. Unicellular organisms are in the Archaebacteria, Eubacteria kingdoms. Multicellular organisms are in the Animalia, Plantae and Fungi kingdoms. Protista is the only kingdom that has both unicellular and multicellular organisms.Plantae, Fungi and Protista's cells all reproduce sexually and asexually. Archaebacteria and Eubacteria's cells both reproduce asexually. Animalia's only reproduces sexually.
     All of the kingdoms have a unique shape of their cells. Archaebacteria, Protista and Eubacteria are autotrophic and heterotrophic. Animalia and Fungi are both heterotrophic. Plantae is only autotrophic. Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Protista are eukaryotic. Archaebacteria and Eubacteria are prokaryotic. Archaebacteria organisms live in salty environments.Some Eubacteria have a second membrane outside the cell membrane.In Animalia, 5% of animals are called vertebrates. Plantae produces oxygen. In Fungi, mushrooms can reproduce sexually and asexually. Protistas are free-living protozoans. Each kingdom has something special about them.

Cells

    Cells are the basic functional units in organisms. There are multicellular organisms, organisms who contain many cells. There are also unicellular organisms, organisms contained only one cell. An example of a multicellular organism is a human. An example of a unicellular organism is Amoeba.
   There are two types of cells: prokaryotic and eukaryotic. Prokaryotic cells are more smaller than eukaryotic cells and lacking of a nucleus and other organelles of eukaryotes. There are two types of prokaryotes that share similar structures: bacteria and archaea. Eukaryotic cells are way larger and complex than prokaryotic cells. A big difference between them is that eukaryotic cells contain membrane-bound compartments. Examples of complex organisms that are eukaryotes are animals, plants and fungi. The cell divison is different from prokaryotes since prokaryotes don't contain a nucleus. Cells are the building blocks of life.

Osmosis

     Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane into regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration. Diffusion is the spread of particles through random motion from regions of high concentration to regions to low concentration. The difference between them  is that osmsosis is the diffusion of water only, throught passive transport and diffusion is the transport of varies substances by the means of passive or active transport. In diffusion and osmosis any passive transport can happen without energy since they don't need ATP. A concentration gradient is when there's an uneven distribution of a substance across a border. An exmaple: If we picture each individual molecule as a little blue dot and there's a thousand of them. On one side there is 850 little blue dots and the other side is 150, the sides  aren't even. Solute & Solvent have to do with Osmosis and Diffusion because osmosis is the diffusion of solvent through a permeable membrane. Water is not always a solvent  because not all things dissolve in water.