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flat =About Me= I am a freshman in high school. I am pretty good at school and like playing video games. I like to hunt and fish. My dad works for the state police and my mom works for a bank. I am not very smart with technology.

=Black Locust= The scientific name of the Black Locust is //Robinia pseudoacacia L.// White Oak, Black Oak, Hickories, American Beech, and Red Maple are some of the trees that the Black Locust is related to. It is Deciduous, and pinnately compound, with smooth margins, and has alternate leaves. It has black bark, and the tip of the leaflet is rounded. The trunk is 1 to 2 feet wide and is used for fence posts, reforestation, and erosion control. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Robina9146.JPG

=Silver Maple= The Scientific name of the Silver Maple is //Acer Saccharinum L//. It is related to Black Maple Sugar Maple and Red Maple. It is Deciduous and has simple leaves with a toothed margin, and has opposite leaves. The Silver Maple rapidly grows from early life but growth slows when it gets big. People prefer not to tap it for sugar for the reason that it's sugar contents are lower than that of the other maple trees. Many people like to plant Silver Maples as decoration for their graceful appearance. It has soft wood, therefore it is only used for things like cheap furniture, pulpwood, containers, and fuel. It is not tapped as heavily as other maple trees since it has less quantity of sugar, but it is said that it does have tastier sugar than that of the Red Maple. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Silber-Ahorn_%28Acer_saccharinum%29.jpg =Biomolecules of foods lab=

The food that I have chosen to do for testing biomolecules is an egg yolk. I have looked at the results of the test and came up with this: simple sugars: absent, starch:present, fat: present, proteins: present. We have also have tested liver and came up with these results: simple sugars: absent, starch: absent, fat: present, proteins: present.Liver, egg white, egg yolk, and ground beef are the meats and eggs we tested. We have tested that the majority did not have simple sugars. For starch the majority showed up as absent. The majority had a presence of fat. Lastly, protein was present. So in all they have proteins and fats, but they lack in starch and simple sugars.Potatoes, lettuce, peas, and cannelini beans are the vegetables we tested for a presence of biomolecules. The simple sugars came up as absent for almost all of them. Starch, since they are vegetables, was present in them. fats came out as absent. Proteins also came out as absent.Bananas, apples, and avocados are the fruit we tested. Simple sugars were found present in all of them. Starch has come up as absent in most of the tests we performed. The test results for fats was close, but over half had turned up absent. It was also close tests for proteins, but the majority of the tests came up as absent.The dairy results that we came up with for milk was that simple sugars and starch were absent, but proteins and fats were present. I have noticed a pattern in certain foods for biomolecules. Meats and eggs seem to be high in protein and fat but low in simple sugars and starch. Vegetables are high in starch but low in protein, fat, and simple sugars. Fruits are high in both simple sugars and starch, but low in fat and proteins. Lastly, dairy is high in protein and fat, but low in starch and simple sugars. It surprised me to find that starch was absent in the fruits. I was surprised because I thought that plant life contained starch. I was also surprised to see that sugar did not come up in dairy, because of it's sweet taste I was sure it would have some. Based upon my research into the nutrition facts of eggs, sugar should have come up as positive. Some vegetables should have come up with protein. Fruits based upon the facts should have tested positive in protein. It turns out after research that dairy does contain sugar. Hope you have enjoyed my biomolecule paragraph

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=DNA discussion question= 1. Not everyone in our group had the same. One group member did not even have any visible DNA. We think he shook it before he should have, so we think this is the case. However some of our different DNA samples looked different and had different quantities of clumped up DNA. This could possible be because they did not have the same amount of cheek cells. This could be due to certain hygiene habits, or lack thereof, and it could also be affected by how recently people have eaten, or whether or not they chew their gums.

=DNA Replication Summary = Lets talk about DNA replication. So basically you have this DNA molecule. There are two strands with these things called hydrogen bonds holding them together like glue. There is an enzyme called helicase that cuts through these hydrogen bonds like scissors, breaking apart the DNA strands. Then there forms single stranded binding proteins, which keeps the strands from coming back together. After that and enzyme called primase forms at the end of the strands making a starting point for replication. Afterwards another enzyme called polymerase goes down the rest of the strand and replicates the rest of it.

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