Rachel

flat =About Me= My name is Rachel, I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter books and movies. I like the bands Mayday Parade, Big Time Rush, and the Downtown Fiction. My favourite colour is neon orange, my favourite amusement park is Cedar Point. My favourite ride there is either Top Thrill Dragster, Millenium Force, or the Maverick. I play basketball, track and field, and I golf. I also play soccer in my spare time, but I'm not very good.

= = =Staghorn Sumac= The Staghorn Sumac's scientific name is //Rhus typhina.// It's related to the Poison Sumac tree. It's a deciduous, which means that it has leaves, not needles. It has alternate, pinnately compound leaves. Some distinguishing characteristics of the tree are, it has red-brown hairs on the branches, the foliage turns a brilliant red in the autumn, and the fruit that grows on the tree. Specific uses of the tree, are beekeepers use the dried sumac bobs as a source of fuel for their smokers. The fruit of the tree can be collected, soaked and washed in cold water, strained, sweetened and made into pink lemonade. All parts of the tree, except the roots can be used as both a natural dye and as a mordant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staghorn_sumac

=Catalpa= The Catalpa Tree's scientific name is //Catalpa speciosa.// It is related to the Southern Catalpa (//Catalpa bignonioides.)// It's mostly deciduous, so it has leaves and not needles. The leaves are opposite and simple. The margin is entire or wavy. Characteristics of the tree are, it's flowers that come out in July, which are about 10 inches long. The fruit that grow on the tree, they're 15.5 inches long. Lastly, the bark on the tree, which is a light brown, shallowly and ridged. The tree is a sole source of food for the catalpa sphinx moth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa

=Biomolecules in Food Lab= Spinach Starch is present No simple sugar is present There is no marble effect Fat and oils aren't present

I did ground beef. There were no simple sugar or starches found, the experiment did not change colors. The fats, oils, and proteins were present, the experiment changed colors to show it's presence. For the meat group they had proteins present, fats present, sugar absent and present, starch was absent and present also. Fruits had both sugar being absent and present. Starch was present and absent. Fats were absent and present. Proteins were both absent and present. For vegetables sugar was absent and present. Starch was absent and present. Fats were mostly absent but had some present. Proteins were present and absent. Egg yolks had both sugar being absent and present. The starch was both absent and present. The fats were both absent and present. The protein was only present. For egg whites the sugar was both absent and present. The starch was both absent and present. The fats were both absent and present. The protein was only present. I wasn't surprised to find that there were no proteins absent in the meats, egg yolks, and egg whites. I also wasn't surprised that there wasn't any fats absent in the meat. I was surprised to see that the fruits had so many sugars present. I think that in the ground beef, there should have been more starches absent. I did the results, and I'm pretty sure that it doesn't have starches. Even though 6 people said it did, they could have been wrong.
 * Food || Sugar Absent || Sugar Present || Starch Present || Starch Absent || Fats Present || Fats Absent || Proteins Present || Proteins Absent ||
 * Meats || 13 || 2 || 6 || 9 || 15 || 0 || 15 || 0 ||
 * Fruits || 2 || 24 || 13 || 13 || 14 || 12 || 10 || 16 ||
 * Vegetables || 24 || 2 || 16 || 10 || 4 || 22 || 11 || 15 ||
 * Egg Yolks || 6 || 2 || 3 || 3 || 6 || 3 || 9 || 0 ||
 * Egg Whites || 8 || 2 || 2 || 10 || 3 || 6 || 9 || 0 ||

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=Cheek Cell DNA Homework= Did everyone in your group have about the same extraction results? Why is this the case? How is the amount of DNA that you extracted affected by your day to day activities?

Not everyone in our group got the same extraction results. Part of the case would be one of us in our group has braces, the metal from the braces would get more gum cells because of the metal going into the gum. Also, if one person just swished the Gatorade in their mouth while the others bit their gum trying to get a lot of gum cells. The amount of DNA would be affected by my day to day activity because, maybe you were chewing gum before the experiment, then the gum cells would be loose and they would get washed in with the Gatorade. If you’re wearing braces everyday for a while then it would make the gum cells loose also and the same thing would happen to the as the gum chewer. I talk everyday and sometimes your teeth will brush against your gum knocking the cells loose and then when you swish Gatorade around it will take it in.

=DNA Replication Summary = It all starts with a double-helix strand of DNA. But, the hydrogen bond that holds together Adenine and Thymine and Cytosine and Guanine will be broken up by the helicase. The single stranded binding protein will then keep the DNA strands from coming back together. Then, the primase will attach to the starting point of the leading strand, and the polymerase will bind and will begin to replicate the DNA. The primase will form on the lagging strand and so will polymerase. The ligase (pieces of okasaki fragments together) will come and then it will bond the fragments together. That replicates the lagging strands.

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