Emily+R

flat =About me= Hello my name is Emily Reitz. I'm very talkative and like meeting new people. I am adopted and have a twin and also an older sister. I'm into a lot of sports; volleyball, basketball, track and softball. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Butternut (White Walnut):= -Juglans cinerea -fungal disease killed many butternut trees -nuts for wildlife -furniture, instrument cases, and boxes -buartnut they both have nuts on the trees -Stout, greenish-gray to tan, rough, brittle. Pith chocolate-brown, chambered. Buds light brown, hairy, not covered with scales; end bud 1⁄2"-3⁄4" long, side buds smaller. Fringe of short hairs between leaf-scar and bud. -native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada, from southern Quebec west to Minnesota, south to northern Alabama and southwest to northern Arkansas. = = = Silk: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Silk fabric was first grown in ancient China. = = = = = = = = = = Silk is made for fabric in Chinese merchants because of its texture and luster. Silk was used for many of things like clothing such as shirts, ties, blouses, formal-dresses. Other things would be bed-sheet, blanket, tables and pillow.

Interesting thing about silk is that it is a natural protein fibre, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. Silk fabric was first developed in ancient China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk = Diffusion and Osmosis: = The salt water took the water out of the potato so now it weighs less and the potato shank and turned brownish.

The pure water made the potato turn a yellowish color and gained a little weight.



The salt water potato experiment showed diffusion while the regular water potato experiment showed osmosis.

=DNA:= The DNA starts to unwind. The hydrogen bond are broken. The strand 1 is going to get a new strand 2. The strand 2 is going to get a new strand 1. The hydrogen bonds reform, and DNA winds back together.


 * __Telomeres__** -long stretches at the ends of the chromosome
 * __okazaki fragments__** - DNA polymerase can begin to synthesize a section of complementary strand, working in a different direction
 * __dna ligase -__**stitches the okazaki fragments together
 * __telomerase -__**enzyme that adds telomere repeat sequences to the three end of DNA strands
 * __cancer -__**arise from somatic cells, and they regained the ability to synthesize high levels of telomerase with shorten their telomeres
 * __transplanted cells__**- required periodic fresh infusions of their transformed T cells
 * __cloning –__**DNA placed in a organism so there is enough analyze or use in protein production
 * __aging -__**progressive loss of physiological functions that increases the probability of death