D+Lellock

flat Blog: https://podcast.punxsy.k12.pa.us/users/14lellock_dakota/ =About Me:= Hello. My name is Dakota and i go to Punxsutawney Area School District. I am a major gamer, although i would prefer to be with my friends than stay inside and play Xbox or be on the computer. I eagerly await all the big brand games like the Call of Duty, Gears of War, and Halo series and that are coming out this year. I do not play any school sports, but if I had to play one it would be basketball. I am a part of Student Government and Ski Club. Ski club is my favorite part of the school year. I snowboard with my friends at Holiday Valley. It is a lot of fun.

=Norway Spruce=
 * 1) Name: Norway Spruce
 * 2) Scientific Name: Picea abies
 * 3) Organism that infects tree: Spruce Beetle
 * 4) Provides habitat or food for: The caterpillar of a Tortrix Moth feeds off of it. The Snowshoe Hare uses it for shelter in the winter.
 * 5) Justify classification of tree to related trees: The Siberian Spruce is genetically similar with the Norway Spruce.
 * 6) Commercial use of tree: Used in forestry for timber and paper production and also for Christmas trees.
 * 7) Twig characteristics: Bright, golden-brown. Buds egg-shaped, darker than twigs.
 * 8) Where tree is found in the world (native to pa?): Found throughout Europe and along northeastern, Pacific coast, and Rocky Mountain States, and southeastern Canada.
 * 9) Draw or find a picture of a drawing of the leaf to show to the class:

=Cedar=
 * 1) Name: Cedar
 * 2) Scientific Name: Cedrus
 * 3) Organism that infects tree: larvae of some lepidoptera species.
 * 4) Provides habitat and food for: Pine processionary and turnip moth
 * 5) Cedars share a similar cone structure to firs.
 * 6) Commercial use of tree: Used as an ornamental tree.
 * 7) Twig characteristics: it has broad level branches with short shoots which the needles grow from.
 * 8) Where tree is found in the world: The Mediterranean, western Europe to the British Isles, Southern Australia and New Zealand, and southern and western North America.
 * 9) Draw or find a picture of a drawing of the leaf to show to the class:

=Classification of Marine Bacteria= 1. The steps in the Dichotomous Key are organized with two alternatives to each question leading to further questions to find the organism or thing you are trying to identify.

2. To help identify an organism by breaking it down under different questions.

3. x

4. I am most related to Pelagibacter and Ruegeria.

5. I am most different from Emiliania huxleyi.

=Biomolecules=
 * Graph 1 Bananas**
 * Graph 2 Apples**

Biomolecules in food questions
1. What kinds of biomolecules are in each of the food substances you tested? The biomolecules that are in the foods I tested are Simple sugars and Fat in the apples and Simple sugars, Fat, and Starch in bananas.

2. Do certain biomolecules have the same catalase reactions? Explain.

3. What other results did you observe in the class that can be used to make a statement of what you have learned? I have learned that not all foods are have the same chemical makeup and that some foods don't have the nutrients we need in them.


 * 1) Discuss your results from the activity, discuss your analysis of the activity from the spreadsheet (what did you learn, what was surprising, what connections can you make between temperature and enzyme activity and the presence of catalase in certain foods?)
 * 2) Show the chart that you created.
 * 3) Develop a question about the catalase activity. Create a quality question about enzymes or enzyme action, etc. Either research to find the answer or use available materials to experiment to find the answer. If you research, list your sources. If you experiment, outline your experiment and explain your results.

=Lab Report=

I was assigned plant f for this project. The Rf value for pigment one was .125, the Rf value for the pigment two was .35, and the Rf value for pigment three was .5. The differences in the Rf values described how the pigment was attracted to the solvent front and it was quite noticable in the differences in attraction between the different pigments. Not all leaves have the same pigments because some of the other groups had different rf values for their pigments which means they arent the same pigment as the one found in our plant.

=Photosensitivity Lab=

The light intensity deals with the different measures of light. Light intensity and wave length are important to photosynthesis because they affect the ammount of energy that is going to the chloroplasts. The brighter the light the more intense the reaction will be and the wavelength at the right amount increase the potential for maximum ATP higher.

=Yeast Respiration Lab= Sugar 7% Radius= 1 in Circumference= 6.28 in Volume= 12.57 in

1. The first conclusion is that the percentage of sugar determined the amount that the dough raised. The second conclusion is that the correct measurement of yeast was key if you want it to rise correctly.

2. The dependent variable is Yeast and the independent variable is sugar. The yeast changes depending on the sugar amount and the sugar is not affected.

3. The yeast prefers warm environments and the more sugar that it can absorb the more it will rise.

4. The 3% sugar did not rise as much as the 10% but it was not as noticable between the closer percents.

5. The yeast performed anaerobic respiration because it brought CO2 into the dough to make it rise.

=DNA Replication=

In DNA replication, the double helix unwinds and splits and while it splits apart new strands join with the correct bases to form two new double helixes. Over time during this process the telomeres break down and wear, which can eventually cause diseases and other problems at an older age. DNA replication takes place during S or Synthesis phase of mitosis.



=Class Traits=

The traits I focused on are free or attached earlobes and if a person has dimples or no dimples. That data found off the linked website has a couple thousand more participants than the data we gathered in class. The data on the linked website is also accumulated over multiple years. The dominant trait of earlobes is if it is free it is dominant if it is attached it is a recessive trait. If someone has dimples they hold the dominant trait if they do not have dimples they have the recessive trait. The earlobe attachment is said to be more or less made up of more than one gene, as there are many different phenotypes for your earlobes. Dimples mostly appear on ones face but have the possibility of showing up on the chin. They appear because of a shortened muscle and because of that the muscle may stretch with age. In the data chart, dimples had more results with the recessive trait and the earlobes were characterized with the dominant trait. Showing that the dominant trait is not always going to be dominant. The traits from class that I used are Hitchhikers thumb and the ability to roll your tongue. Rolling your tongue was a dominant trait and 12 out of 13 females were able to do it and 3 out of 5 males could do it. 15 out of 18 people could roll their tongues leaving three people who had the recessive trait of not being able to roll their tongue. Hitchhiker’s thumb is a recessive trait in which someone’s thumb has the ability to bend backwards at a near 90-degree angle. 3 out of 13 girls had the trait and 3 out of 5 boys had the trait. 6 out of 18 people had a hitchhiker’s thumb. The dominant trait prevailed in this test. I can roll my tongue and so can the rest of my family so my parents either had all dominant allele or a dominant and recessive allele. And my sister and I either have pure dominant alleles or a mix of dominant and recessive.