Ryan

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I am a freshman in high school. My favorite class is English, I would like to go to college at the University of North Carolina to study sports analyst. I play baseball all over the country for an AAU team. I live for sports, I will talk about them and play them all day if I were able too. I have a sister that is a Junior in High School. I have been to Georgia for baseball which was amazing!

=Norway Spruce= The Scientific name for the Norway Spruce is //Picea abies//. It is also related to the White Spruce and any other spruce trees. It is a coniferous tree. The Norway Spruce is a Spruce tree, which has needles that a one by one (single) not in clusters. Evergreen needles occur one by one, spirally arranged on twigs, sharp pointed. The needles are usually 3/4" long, and dark green. This is used for Christmas trees like a lot of other Spruce trees. The wood is used for paper pulp, boxes, crates, and lumber. If you can roll the needles then it is a spruce. [] =Tamarak(American Larch)= The scientific name of the Tamarack is //Larix laricina.//Other trees that it is related to is the Eastern Larch, Western Larch, and any other Larch trees. The Tamarack tree is a conifer. It is a Spruce tree, there is more than 5 needles in a cluster. The bark is roughened with small circular scales, sheds ALL of its leaves in the fall, has small scaly cones that stand upright on the branches. Its main use is to make railroad ties, telephone poles, fence posts, and sometimes for shipbuilding. []

=Biomolecules Food Lab= I also tested spinach I had the Carbohydrates and Starch present. The Spinach had no active Protein and Fats, they weren't present.


 * I did the banana it provided carbohydrates and proteins, which were all present. Starches and Fats were the two substances that were absent in the banana. I found that it was still kind of difficult to see if the substances were present or absent. The colors never really changed a lot in the banana. Proteins, fats, and starch were biomolecules that were found in these foods. There were some foods that I didn’t think provided protein, like fruits, but they did. I didn’t know that starch was an active substance in so as many foods as it showed in the lab. Eggs, meats, and milk almost always tested present for protein and fat, but the didnt test present for starches and sugar as much. From what I saw fruits and vegetables are pretty much the exact opposite. I found it to be a little weird that a couple people tested there food and all of the substances were absent, they didn't even have on that was present.** **One of my lab partners, who tested the tested the white bean, everything was present except for simple sugars. I found this to be normal, because I wouldn’t expect a white bean to have sugar.**

> **__ Vegetables __** were tested in the lab are: cannelini beans(white beans), peas, lettuce, and potatoes were the vegetables. Starch was almost always present in the test results. Fat and protein were sometimes present in the vegetables, but not always. Sugars were absent in the results. > **__ Meats __** were tested in the lab were liver and ground beef were the only two meats. Ground beef and liver usually did not have starch or sugar present, pretty much always absent, but occasionally they did. They always was present for protein and fat. > **__ Eggs and Milk __**: Egg white always were present with protein, and nothing else. Egg yolk always was present with protein, fat, and sometimes simple sugars. Milk only tested positive for protein and fats but nothing else.
 * **__ Fruits __** were tested in the lab are: avocodos, bananas, and apples were the fruits. They pretty much always test present for simple sugars. They sometimes were present for starch, but not very often. Fruit not once was present for fats, but they sometimes were present for protein, but not very often.

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= DNA Homework Question =

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?

DNA has Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, and Thymine in it. Guanine and Cytosine is held together by three hydrogen bonds and Adenine and Thymine are held together by two hydrogen bonds. To begin the replication, of course you have to break it apart first. Then these proteins called single stranded binding proteins attach to keep all of the strands from coming together. An enzyme called primase is the starting point. Then an enzyme called polymerase binds and begins to replicate the DNA. There is a leading strand and a lagging strand of DNA. The fragments on the lagging strand are called Okazaki fragments. You have the primase and polymerase again. Then you also have ligase, which it binds the fragments together. The leading strand will always go first and then the lagging will follow.

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