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flat =About Me= My name is Kameron. I am an all academic student and a freshman in high school. I hope to be some type of engineer when I am older. I like to play guitar and play games. I also participate in football and track.

=Staghorn Sumac= The staghorn sumac's scientific name //is Rhus typhina.// The staghorn sumac is a deciduous tree and its leaves are pinnate compound, alternate, and their margin is toothed. It is also related to the smooth sumac, poison sumac, and prairie sumac, but sumac trees are found all over the world. The tree also produces milky sap and also a reddish fruit; the stems on the trees are slightly fuzzy. Native Americans used the fruit of the staghorn sumac to make a lemonade-like drink by crushing the berries. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Rhus_typhina.JPG

=American Beech= The American Beech's scientific name is //Fagus grandifolia// and it is related to the Mexican Beech, Yellow Birch, and Sugar Maple. The tree is deciduous and its leaves are simple, alternate, and have a toothed margin. The American Beech produces nuts which used to be eaten by the now extinct passenger pigeon. The tree is also susceptible to the beech blight aphids. The American Beech is used for flooring, furniture, and tool handles. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Fagus_grandifolia_foliage.jpg

=Biomolecules Lab= Food Tested: **Apple**
 * Sugars: **Present**
 * Starch: **Present**
 * Fat: **Absent**
 * Protein:**Absent**


 * The apple that I tested was positive for starch and simple sugars, and was negative for fats and proteins. Another food that was tested in my group was egg yolk. It was positive for starch, protein, and fat, and was negative for simple sugars. Simple sugars are the simplest of carbohydrates while starch is a long number of glucose strung together to form one strand or molecule. Proteins are polymers that are composed of amino acids and are distinguished by it containing nitrogen. Fats are often greasy and oily and are made up of a mixture of lipids. Most of the proteins were found in the animal products such as meats, eggs, and milk. All of the vegetables seemed to be limited to only containing starch and proteins. The fruits often contained simple sugars and starches most of the time. Whether the food contained fats or not seemed random. I was surprised that fruits contained simple sugars because when I think of sugar, I think of junk food and sugary cookies, not apples, pineapples, bananas and, other fruits. I was surprised that lettuce didn’t contain anything at all. I was expecting at least something like a little bit of starch or a small amount of protein. After researching, the truth is that all of these should be positive for everything because they all contain at least a small amount of the things I tested for. **

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=DNA Lab Homework= Everyone in our group hade different extraction amounts because we each had a different amount of cheek cells in the solution. However, if we each extracted the same amount of cheek cells then we would have the same amount of DNA because each cell has the same amount of DNA and Chromosomes in them. This DNA that we extracted affects our day to day lives because DNA tells our cell what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. With out DNA, life would not exist.

=DNA Replication Summary = First, and enzyme called helicase attaches to the DNA and begins to split it right down the middle. It forms a replication fork and the proteins keep the individual strains from coming back together. When the DNA splits it forms a leading strand and a lagging strand. Then primase, binds to the DNA and forms a starting point for the DNA to start replicating. Then polymerase comes and starts to duplicate the DNA. But since the lagging strand replicates backwards, it only replicates in small bits, so an enzyme comes along and binds those little bits together.

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