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flat =About me= My name is Jacob. My favorite sport is fly fishing. I like fly fishing because it is a good way to get outdoors and see nature. I think school isn't as bad as some people say it is. Science and history have always been my favorite subjects and math has always been my least favorite. I like to be outdoors, doesn't really matter what I am doing outside. One of the things that I hate the most are rainy days.

=Sugar Maple= The tree that I was assigned was the sugar maple. It's scientific name is //acer sacchaum// and it is closely related to the black maple.

Leafs
It has oppositely attached simple leaves with 5 pointed lobes, and palmate veins. The leaves have moderately deep lobes with u shaped sinuses.

Distinguishing Characteristics
A clear sugary sap is a good distinguishing characteristic. The sap leaks out of any broken branches, or cuts. On a sugar maple, the the clear sap can be squeezed out of the petiole which is a good way to distinguish between the sugar maple and the Norway maple. The maple's tree is shaped with ascending branches, with a round to oval crown. The maple's leafs have five lobes, and the leafs are a greenish yellow on top, and lighter colored on the bottom.

Uses
The sugar maple's sap can be collected to be made into maple syrup. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. Sugar maple has many uses in furniture and cabinet building because it has some really good looking wood that is strong and durable. It is also planted for decoration because it's leafs turn into bright reds and oranges in the fall.

**Sources**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_maple

=Cucumber Magnolia= The second tree that I identified was the Cucumber Magnolia. It's scientific name is //magnolia acuminanta// and it is related to the tulip tree.

**Leafs**
The cucumber magnolia has simple, alternate, deciduous leafs with a smooth margin,and a downy underside.

**Distinguishing Characteristics**
The cucumber magnolia's fruit looks like a small cucumber when it's young. Once it matures in the fall, it is 3-4 inches long, and is bright red. Each fruit has 2 bright red seeds inside the pod, which usually stays on all winter. In the spring, cucumber magnolia gets a greenish, yellow flower on it that is 3 inches long.

**Uses**
The cucumber magnolia's seeds and fruit are eaten by squirrels, mice, and song birds. Cucumber magnolias are often planted in parks for shade and decoration, but are not good for planting along roads.

**Sources**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_magnolia

=Bio Molecules in Food= Hypothesis- I predict that the beef will have fat and proteins. __Ground Beef__ Benedict's test- negative Iodine test- negative Biuret test- positive Sudan IV- positive

__Lettuce__ Benedict's test- negative Iodine test- negative Biuret test- negative Sudan IV- negative

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The ground beef and the lettuce both tested negative for the Benedict's test and the Iodine test. These test for simple sugars and starch. Ground beef tested positive for proteins, and fats and oils in the Biuret and the Sudan IV tests.=====

Identify the biomolecules found in each of the foods/types of foods (look at all the results from the classes)
What biomolecules found in the foods were surprising to you? Why? I was surprised that the lettuce had no sugar, because lettuce is a plant that makes it's own food in the form of sugar.

Compare the biomolecules found in the different foods. You can make a chart or graph to show your data OR discuss the data in some way in your paragraph. In my tests I tested ground beef and compared with someone who tested lettuce. In my tests i found that there were no simple sugars or starch in ground beef. The beef did have fat and protien though. The lettuce had no sugars, fats, starches, or protein.

What biomolecules found in the foods were surprising to you? Why? What biomolecules did you expect to see in some of the foods that you did not find? Why did you think they would be there? I was surprised that there was no bio molecules that showed up in the lettuce in out tests. I expected that there would be a simple sugar in the lettuce because it is a plant that makes it's own food in the form of glucose.

Research the nutritional information about some of the foods. Based upon your research, which tests should have been positive instead of negative. The ground beef's tests where right, with the tests for protien and fats being positive, and the simple sugars and starch being negative. The iceberg lettuce has a little bit of protein which it tested negative for, and the rest of the test was right it was negative in the starch, simple sugars, and fats. =Biomolecules Infographic=

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=Photosynthesis Webquest= 1. What is photosynthesis? Photosynthesis is the process in which CO2 is turned into the sugar.

2. What types of organisms carry out photosynthesis? List 3 groups. Monocots, dicots and autotrophs are some examples of animals that carry out photosynthesis.

3. What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis? What is the translation for the chemical equation? 6CO2 +6H2O + sunlight à C6H12O6+6O2 Six carbon dioxide + six water+ sunlight= glucose+ six oxygen.

4. Look at your equation in number 3 and answer the following questions:

a. What are the raw materials or reactants needed to carry out photosynthesis? CO2 and H20 are required.

b. What are the products of photosynthesis? Glucose and oxygen are the products.

c. What energy source is needed in the reaction? The energy needed is sunlight.

5. Consider a plant as the photosynthetic organism.

a. In what part of the plant does photosynthesis occur? In the leafs.

b. What specific cells are involved? The cells that are in the leafs.

c. What specific organelle is involved? The chloroplasts are where photosynthesis occurs.

6. How does the plant get the raw materials needed for photosynthesis to the plant part where photosynthesis occurs? The water comes through the xylem, and the CO2 comes through the stomata.

7. What is a stoma and of what value is the stoma to the plant in its efforts to carry out photosynthesis? Stomata is a pore in the underside of the leaf, which lets CO2 in, and O2 out.

8. Explore the organelle that is responsible for the process of photosynthesis. What are found inside the organelle and how do these parts aid in the process of photosynthesis? The organelle that is responsible for the process of photosynthesis is the chloroplast. The chlorophyll traps light to use as energy.

9. What is the first part of photosynthesis called and where does it occur?

The first stage is called the light stage, and it occurs in the thylakoid membrane.

10. What exactly happens in the first part of photosynthesis?

The chloroplasts capture energy from the sun, and make it into energy.

11. What is the second part of photosynthesis called and where does it happen?

It is called the dark cycle and it occurs in the chloroplasts.

12. What happens in the second part of photosynthesis?

Three NADPH are made into sugars.

13. Are the two parts of photosynthesis connected? If so, explain the connection.

Yes they are because they the NADPH are made in the first phase, and they are used in the second phase

14. Does the chemical equation that you listed in number 3 tell the entire story of the process of photosynthesis? Why or why not? Yes because it tells what is used, what is used to make it, and what the products are.

=Photosynthesis Infographic= =DNA Cheek Cell Lab= 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? No, everyone did not have the same results. This could very because of what everyone ate for breakfast, if they were chewing gum, had braces, what they drank this morning, andvariables. = = =DNA Replication Summary = First the helicase splits the original DNA strand into 2 different strands, the leading strand, and the lagging strand. Next the single strand binding proteins attach, and they keep the old strands from binding with each other. Then the DNA polymerase gets on the leading strand and duplicates it completely. The Polymerase attaches to the 3” end, and then it can duplicate from the beginning to the end. On the lagging strand, the end is a 5” end, so the polymerase cannot attach to it. The DNA primase has to attach first, so the RNA primer can attach the other half of the DNA to make the 3” end that the DNA polymerase can work with. Then the DNA ligase joins the okazaki fragments to complete the lagging strand.

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