April 28 2009, Kimara Gratton 3/3

What we did today:

• Recall:
• allele
• law of indep. asst.
• page 619 questions 1c,2
• Finished notes
• multiple alleles
• incomplete dominance
  
• codominance
• gene interactions
• Coin toss activity
  

Thoughts and opinions/Above and Beyond
I was thinking that people must have alot of time on their hands to run around tracking "pea offspring" but I'm not complaining cus now i know how i ended up with a backwards toe knuckle hahahaha..... i also started wondering about what blood type i am so i asked my mother when i got home after school and it turns out i'm O+ but i cant donate cus i'm anemic DANG!!! I also enjoyed the coin toss activity out of 96 kids me and carrie had 6 albino midgets haha neat...

April 15th 2009 Candy lab and internet research ~ Kristi Sissons

April 15th 2009 Kristi Sissons
Candy Lab and internet research
· During the candy lab we were suppost to create a demonstration using candy on mitotic cell division and the process of meiotic cell division.
Requirements for this lab are:
· Make sure that the organism that is being modeled has 4 diploid umbers.
· Make a legend to remind yourself and to show what each section desplayed means and what it is representing.
· You had to make sure that you included a nucleas in all of the stages in both mitosis and meiosis
· Include key activities in each stage
· Must be labeled clearly in each individual stage.
· You get bonus marks for additional information.
o You were aloud to use your notes but you lost 10%
In the experiment on the computer we were suppost to go to the bio site http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/page1.html
And answer the questions on the sheet of paper we were given, online meiosis practice and karyotyping exercise.
With this exercise we were put onto the computer and had to find out how to read karyotypes and look at cases that someone might have and try and find out what they have.

Hayley Tarnasky, April 17, 2009, Blog #3, 3/3

What We Did:

1. Online activity marking

• karyotyping
• non - disjunction

2. Handed out notes - based on Page 583

3. Review questions on karyotyping etc

Thoughts and Opinions:

• Throughout the whole class I was completely baffled about the fact that there seems to be no logical explaination for why on earth downs syndrome happens or klinefelters syndrome, other than the fact that there are millions of cells in ones body so of course there are bound to be errors, and this of course, was not good enough for me! Meaning that I still couldn't wrap my head around the whole concept. So, it turn, we have a quiz on Monday, so I hope that that go's well.
• My question is, how many people get down syndrome in Canada, and why it happens to only certain people.

Above And Beyond:

• http://www.dsrf.org/ has my answer