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toc =Members= Jake Whitman Mason Yoder =DNA Lab=
 * 1) What are the 5 elements that make up DNA? **Guanine, adenine, thymine, cytosis, and sugar phosphate make up DNA.**
 * 2) What is the function of DNA from day to day? **DNA can be used to study organisms and heredity.**
 * 3) Describe how long strands of double-helical DNA fit into the nucleus of a single cheek cell. **The DNA wraps around the proteins.**
 * 4) What was the purpose of using the cell lysis solution? **The lysis unwraps the DNA.**
 * 5) Why does the DNA become visible once the alcohol is added? **The alcohol enlarges the DNA.**
 * 6) If DNA is so thin, how is it that we are able to see it during this simple lab exercise? **We are able to see the DNA because its been enlarged and unwrapped.**
 * 7) Why is DNA referred to as your genetic fingerprint? **DNA is referred as your genetic fingerprint because it sets you aside from everyone else no two people have the same DNA.**
 * 8) Give some examples of how DNA is used everyday. **DNA is used to find perpetrators in crime scene investigations or to determine who the body you found in the river is and who did it.**



=DNA Replication Model! =







=Replication Summary= The first step DNA is split into two halves. Hydrogen bonds are broken by the Helicase. Then the single stranded binding proteins come in to keep the two strands from coming back together. Polymerase then replicates the leading strand from the 3’ to 5’ end. The lagging strand is started from the Primase that then creates okazaki fragments. The lagging strand can’t be copied the same as the leading because then it would be replicating from the 5’ to 3’ end. DNA ligase then comes in and fills the gaps between the fragments and bonding the strand together. This occurs in the synthesis stage of mitosis
 * Write a brief description of what happens in DNA replication and in what phase of mitosis DNA replication happens. **


 * Use the following site **[|**http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Telomeres.html**]** to create information in **

** your own words about telomeres, okazaki fragments, dna ligase, telomerase, cancer, transplanted cells, cloning, and aging. ** **, ** Telomeres are at the end of chromosomes and they keep the DNA from deteriorating when replication happens. It removes DNA ligase combines the okazaki fragments making a complimentary lagging strand of DNA. Telomerase gives cancer the ability to grow fast in cancer cells. And it is an enzyme that adds the telomeres to the 3 prime end of DNA allowing it to replicate. In cloning telomeres shorten and lose genetic information vital to the survival to the cell because the nucleus doesn’t get enough telomerase. The aging causes the mitosis cycle to slow down until they die earlier than a younger host

DNA’s replication is necessary from both parents in reproduction. You get half of your DNA from your mom and half from your father. These pass on traits and other unique things about people. If it goes wrong you can get mutations and deformations and also other things like disabilities.
 * Why DNA needs to copy **

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=DIApER DISSEcTION= Our procedure was to cut out a square, observe the layers separately, predict what each layer will do, and test each layer for what it can do.

The first layer was the top inner layer. It felt rough and thin. It absorbed water but didn't retain it very well. It also acted as a sort of filter. We predicted it would absorb more than it actually did. The next layer was the middle one. It was almost like cotton and very fibery. This layer was predicted to be the most absorbent and it was. It retained all of the water we added. When it absorbed water it turned from the cottonish/fibery texture to a weird gel and it expanded. The gel continued to absorb all the water as well. The top outer layer was very rough and paper like. We thought it would repel water and it did. It acted to keep everything in the diaper. When we tested what they did we added 25 mL of water and observed. But when we tested the absorbancy of the whole diaper we found that it held an INCREDIBLE amount of water at 700mL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were very impressed. When diapers like these are put into landfills they absorb all the liquids they can and expand to very large sizes taking up a lot of space. They also take nearly 500 years to decompose so they will be there for a very, very, VERY long time. Needless to say they aren't the best things for the landfills.