Brandon

flat =About Me= My name is Brandon. I am currently going to Punxsutawney High School. I play a lot of sports and my top 2 i like the most is baseball and basketball. I don't really like any subjects in school except for math. I am planning on playing volleyball this winter with a team and we play in tournaments usually every year. I like a lot of music but my favorite is rap. I like a lot of Wiz Khalifa, Iyaz, Gucci Mane, Eminem and Jay-Z.

=White Pine= ====The White Pine which is also know as //Pinus strobus// is a very large tree. It has no relations with any other trees that i know about or i can not fine. It is a Coniferous and it has pine with 5 a bundle. Some cool things about this tree is that it is the tallest tree in the U.S. Its pine is needle-like and the bark of the tree fire resistant. The uses of this tree is, it is used for Christmas trees to decorate.====

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Pinus_strobus_trees.jpg

=Box Elder=

The box elder has a very weird scientific name i thought and it is called the Acer negundo. It didn't have many related trees but the most common tree that is related to the box elder is the Acer cissifolium. It is a deciduous tree which means it has leaves. It is compound and palmate, so it is opposite. Some cool things about the Box elder is the it has 3-5 coarsely, it is irregular toothed leaflets, and susceptible to fire, ice, and wind damage. It is usually used for barrel making and also syrup can be made from the sap.

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=Biomolecules in Foods Lab=
 * I tested the peas for simple sugars, starch, proteins, and fats. For the test of the peas it came up that everything was absent except for the starch.The starch was the only thing that i found in the test. The other thing i tested was the spinach. I tested for the same thing as i did for the peas and got the same results that it was all absent. For the peas, the variety of people tested that they found starch in the test also. The other thing that my group tested was egg white. The only biomolecule that was present was the protein. All of the other test that they did came up negative.


 * This is the chart that compare the biomolecules in each of the foods that i tested and my groups results.

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 * I was surprised to see that spinach had no biomolecules in it. I thought it was a good source of that that was healthy for you and it would have protein in it. So i did some research in it and found that it has 30% protein in it. It is only 10% less than ground beef. Spinach is healthier to eat than ground beef because ground beef has 60% fat in it. I was also surprised that peas did not have anything in it except for starch. I always thought that peas was a source of protein.

For some research on the banana i found that there is starch in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana

After some research i found out that peas should have came up positive for sugar instead of negative. http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=55

I did some research on spinach and found that it has protein. http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/raw-food-diet/raw-nutrition/is-spinach-really-a-rich-source-of-protein/

=Farmers VS. FDA=



=Biomolecules Review=



=*Photosynthesis infographic*=







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= Cheek Cell Lab Results =

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?

My lab partner got different results. Since everyone has a different DNA there will be no one that has the same results of another person. When you scrape the side of your cheeks with your teeth you get less DNA extracted.

= = =DNA Replication Summary =

DNA stands for deoxyribone nucleic acids. There are four steps to DNA replication. The first step is breaking the hydrogen bond using helicase. The second step it attaches single stranded binding proteins to keep strands from going back together. The third step is when the primase attaches to give a starting point. The final step is the polymerase begins to replicate DNA. In the fragments of DNA on logging strand are called; Okazaki fragments.

=DNA Infographic=







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