Matt+H.

== =About me= Hello my name is Matt Holmes. My hobbies are riding quads and racing R/C cars. I have a beagle named buck and four other dogs. I am a very fun person to be around. I love being in the outdoors. Last, I am a very smart student.

=Hawthorn= My tree is the Hawthorn. Its scientific name is Crataegus Momogyna. Things that infect the Hawthorn are rust, fireblight, and leafspots. It provides food for 150 insects, wild turkeys, raccoons, squirrels, rabbit, small rodents, ruffed grouse, and deer and habitat for cedar waxwings, northern flickers, mockingbirds, cardinals, and bluejays and small mammals. The Hawthorn is related to the apple tree, both of these trees are in the class Magnoliopsida and both of these trees grow apple at one point in the year. Hawthorn fruit has been used for heart disease since the first century. It has also been used for digestive and kidney problems. Recently, the hawthorn leaf and flower have been used for heart failure, a weakness of the heart muscle that prevents the heart from pumping enough blood to the rest of the body, which can lead to fatigue and limit physical activities. The hawthorn leaf and flower are used to make liquid extracts, usually with water and alcohol. Dry extracts can be put into capsules and tablets. The leaves and thorns of Hawthorn are arranged alternately along the twig. The hawthorn is native to the Mediterranean region including north Africa and all of Europe and central Asia, and now grows in many areas of North America. The hawthorn is native to Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. =Oats-Matt Holmes= Oats are grown in many states in the United States. Oats are grown in Kansas, Iowa, Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, and many more states. They are also grown everywhere in all temperature zones and in almost every country. Oats are mainly used as breakfast foods for humans and feed for horses. Oats are the third most important grain crop in the United States. The importance of oats being farm crops are decreasing. Oats are believed to be mainly Asiatic in origin. Different kinds of oats probably came from different parts of that continent or Europe. Oats appear to be greatly later in origin than wheat. Early use of oats appears to have been remedial. Cultivation of oats was substantial in Europe prior to the discovery of America. The early growth of the plant consists of leaves and a greatly shortened stem.

=Diffusion and Osmosis= 1. The potato in plain water weighed 5.6g before it was in the water and after it was 7g. It also got harder than it was before it was in the water. The color of the potato stayed the same. The potato in salt water weighed 3.4g before it was in the water and after it was 3g. It also got softer than it was before it was i the water. The color of the potato got lighter. The weight of the bag before it went into the iodine was 35.8g and after it was 37g. The corn starch changed color, from white to dark blue. 2. The iodine was outside the bag and it went inside the bag as it sat over night. The water moved inside the potato that was in the plain water. The water moved outside of the potato that was in the salt water.

=DNA Replication Project=



The DNA unwinds.

The Hydrogen bonds are broken.

Both of the strands begin to make new strands.

New Hydrogen bonds are created.

1. Telomeres - These are the long stretches at the end of the chromosome. 2. Okazaki Fragments - The sections of complementary fragments or strands that will later be stitched together by a DNA Ligase. 3. DNA Ligase - The part of DNA replication that "stitches" the Okazaki Fragments together. 4. Telomerase - This is the enzyme that adds telomere sequences onto the 3' end of the DNA strands. 5. Cancer - Most come from somatic cells but the 1 feature that makes the 2 cells different is that the normal somatic cells have the ability to divide indefinitely. 7. Transplanted Cells - Cells that are taken out of the patient, transformed by a gene to make the product that the patient hasn't been making, and then put back into the patient. 8. Cloning - Uses the nucleus from any adult living thing to make the cells grow in culture. 9. Aging - The shrinking of each of the cells as mitosis continues might impose a finite life on all of the cells.