Morgan+L.

=About Me:= My name is Morgan. :D I attend PAHS, I'm in standard biology and I'm freshman. I love hanging out with my friends and my favortie color is lime green. I also enjoy ice skating and I text all the time. Some of my favorite movies include, The Wizard of Oz, Taken, and Signs. I'm in choir and show choir. I have no brothers or sisters and I'm from a really small town and live in the middle of no where.(:

(: =Bigtooth Aspen= =Scientific name, Populus grandidentata. = =The gypsy moth commonly infects this tree.= =It provides really mineral rich soil. It's leaves, bark, and buds also provide food for animals such as, bears, deer, elk, ruffled grouse, other birds, and small rodents.= =My tree is related to other trees in the classroom because, they can be found in the same forests, they all need most of the same things to survive, and they also are a home to some of the same animals.= =Some of its commercial uses are, that its intolerant of shade and can grow about anywhere. Its also one of the best trees for making paper, waferboard, and lumber.= =Its twigs are thing and can withstand bending to a certain point.= =This tree can be found all through out the world. Its commonly found in the United States, and is also native to Pennsylvania.=


 * Spelt **
 * 1. Spelt is grown in Europe more than anywhere else in the world. ** ** [] **


 * 2. Spelt is made into a bunch of different things. The first one is coarse pale bread which is like a nutty light rye bread, more commonly found in Europe. Biscuits and crackers are also made out of spelt. It can also make Spelt Pasta, gin, and vodka in Poland. [] **


 * 3. Some interesting facts about Spelt would be that younger children in Russia are learning that “spelt” is something that is something that you can make porridge out of, coming from a nursery rhyme that they’ve more than likely been told as a child. It is also mentioned in the book of the bible, Ezekiel. And the last interesting fact I could find about Spelt was, that only in Bavaria is it made into beer. [] **


 * picture from: http://www.cookiescotland.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2008_04_25-Spelt2.jpg **




 * Starch Bag before it was placed in Iodine.**
 * Starch Bag after sitting in Iodine.**



Salt water Potato before sitting all night in solution.

Salt water potato after.

Plain water potato before all night in solution.

Plain water potato after all night in solution.

=DNA REPLICATION:=

1. This is a picture of the beginning strand of DNA. As you can see, the dark pink represents the phosphate, light pink is the sugar connected to the phosphate (this makes the helix), orange stands for Cytosine, Grey stands for Guanine, Blue represents Adenine, Green shows Thymine, & the black squigly line between the to colors represent the hydrogen bond.

2. This picture shows how the hydrogen bonds are being broken. As they are broken the strands start to separate. Each separated strand gets another side added to is shown directly above.

3. This image shows the previous image continued at the top. This is the continuation of the two strands shown previously.


 * VOCABULARY**:

Telomers- The long stretches at the ends of the chromosome Okazaki Fragments- a strand constructed by DNA polymerase that is complementary to the broken strand DNA ligase- stitches the Okakaki fragments together Telomerase-An enzyme that adds DNA repeat sequences to ends of DNA strands Cancer- can regain the ability to synthesize high levels of telomerase and can prevent further shortening of their telomers Transplanted cells- can sometimes be rejected & are mortal, some may be cancerous too Cloning- taking a nucleus from another source of the same species & growing in it in a culture Aging- May continue faster in a clone