Claire+M

flat =About Me= I've been in track for two years. In track i throw discus, and shot put. My favorite colors are orange and purple. If I could live anywhere, I think I would choose Seattle, Washington. The food that I could eat almost every day would be pizza, because you can put anything you want on it.

=Hawthorn= The scientific name of the Hawthorn tree is //Crataegus monogyna//. Other trees related to the Hawthorn are the Japanese Hawthorn, and the another Hawthorn found in Turkey, which has bigger flowers. This tree is deciduous. Its margin is serrated, it's simple, palmate, and alternate. Three distinguishing characteristics of this tree are its dull dark brown bark with orange cracks, the flowers on the tree bloom from May to June, and the stems had thorns ranging from 1 to 1.5 cm long. Some uses of this tree are its berries, which are used to help protect against heart disease and control high blood pressure. The flowers on this tree are also used to cure sore throats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus

=American Beech= The scientific name of the American Beech tree is //Fagus grandfolia//. Another tree related to it is the Mexican Beech. This tree is deciduous, has a toothed margin, is compound and pinnate. Three distinguishing characteristics of the American Beech are that the bark is smooth and gray. The leaves are bright green, and it grows to 50-70 feet tall. Some uses of this tree are that the bark is used to make baskets, and crates, and the leaves can be steeped in salt water to make a poison ivy lotion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagus_grandifolia

=Biomolecules in Foods Results=

The food I tested was the avocado. The results for it were that the simple sugars and starches were present along with the presence of fats. The protein was absent. In an apple, starch, proteins, and fats are all absent. Simple sugar is the only biomolecule present. Simple sugars do not exist in the molecules. Proteins, starches and fats are in the liver. In the egg yolk, fat, starches, and proteins.


 * || Eggs, Milk, Meat || Fruits || Vegetables ||
 * Protein || Ground Beef ||  || Peas ||
 * Fat || Milk || Avocado ||  ||
 * Sugar || Liver || Apples ||  ||
 * Starch || Egg Yolks || Bananas || Potatoes ||

The biomolecules found in the foods that were surprising to me were avocados having fat. I always thought of them as a healthy food so they couldn’t contain too much. The biomolecules that I expected to see was ground beef having protein. I expected to see it because I knew before that most meat had protein.

The test done for sugar in milk should have been positive rather than negative. The testing done for sugar in egg yolks should have been positive rather than negative.

=Infographics= Biomolecules Food Issues =Vocab Infographic= = = Not everyone is my group had the same extraction results. Some differences were that the number of DNA extracted might not have been the same. The amount of DNA that I extracted is affected by my day-to-day activities because of what we ate for lunch, someone may have extracted more DNA than someone else, and someone may not have tried to extract DNA long enough to they didn’t get a lot of DNA.

= DNA Replication Summary = In the beginning of DNA replication an enzyme, helicase, breaks the hydrogen bonds that hold the strands of DNA together. An end of a strand of DNA breaks into what is called a replication fork, looking like a sideways Y. Then, single stranded binding proteins keep the strands from coming back together. Next, an enzyme called primase, gives a starting point to copy the DNA. The lagging one follows the leading strand of DNA. The enzyme, primase, attaches and gives a starting point for replication. Then, an enzyme called polymerase binds and replicates DNA. After that, ligase, another enzyme, joins the Okazaki fragments, or the open pieces of DNA. The lagging strand of DNA uses these Okazaki fragments because it needs an open piece of DNA.

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