Genome BOW 6: Life

Life is consisted of the ability to replicate and to create order. The ability to replicate is made possible by the existence of a recipe which is the information that is needed to create a new body. Genes contains DNA that is a message written in a code of chemicals, giving one letter for each letter. It only has four letters; A, C, G, and T which represents information, replication, breeding, and sex. RNA is a chemical substance that links RNA and proteins, it is used mainly to translate messages from the alphabet of DNA to the alphabet of proteins. It is hard to identify the earliest form of life because creatures today have genes except from their parents, but that could not have been fully true. For example, bacteria can get genes from other bacteria by eating it. Lastly it is believed that there was only one creation and one single event when life was born.

Genome BOW 5: Disease

Chromosome 9 is a well known gene that determines ABO blood type. The universal ABO system includes A, B, AB, and O which was discovered by Viennese. Type A can donate to A and AB, type B can donate to B and AB, type AB can only donate to AB, and O can donate to any blood types. The difference between blood A and B is 7 letters out of the 1062. The difference between type a and b from o blood type is that they are the same but o has deletion of letters. It is shown that O blood types are more affected to chloera but resistant to malaria. Type A, B, and AB are resistant to cholera and are affected to malaria. Cystic fibrosis is a gene on chromosome 7, it is a dangerous disease in the lungs and intestines but also protects the body from typhoid intestinal disease. An experience was made which resulted with choosing mates based on genes to prevent disease; Four men and women wears a cotton shirt for 2 night with no scent and 121 men and women will sniff and rate it from best to worst. It resulted with men and women both prefer body odor of the opposite sex who are genetically different from then genetically.

Genome BOW 4: Memory

Located on Chromosome 16 are genes that allow learning and memory. Learning is from the provinces of neuroscience and psychology which is opposite of instinct. Instinct is genetically determined behavior and learning is behavior through experience but have very little in common. It is believed that learning is good and instinct is bad. Some things learnt and others are distinctive because  by forcing ourselves to learn something we place ourselves in a selective environment that put the future instincts solution to the problem. Therefore meaning that learning gradually gives way to instinct. It is believed that integrins are central to learning and memory. In 1990 it was discovered that there are drugs that act as integrins could affect memory. Example, LTP known as long term potentiation seems to be the main event in the creation of a memory. The human brain is really impressive, if you prefer geometry, it is an analogue three dimensional machine instead of a digital one dimensional, and if you like thermodynamics it will make alot of heat. The brain is one the complex finest which will never be fully understood.

Genome BOW 3: Personality

The gene that affects personality is located chromosome 11 on its short arm which is the gene called D4DR. This gene is the way to make the protein called dopamine receptor and it is switched on in cells of certain parts of the brain but not the rest. Dopamine role is to control the flow of blood through the brain, but a shortage of dopamine causes an indecisive and frozen personality. Too little dopamine also makes the person lack initiative and motivation. Too much will make the person easily bored setting out adventures. Known as the brains punishment chemical, serotonin, it is the chemical that abets anxiety and depressionIt has different ways to respond to outside influence such as social signals. All in all, personality is affected by the hormones of the body to the chemicals of the mind.                                                                                                      

Genome BOW 2: Stress

Chromosome 10 also known as stress genome has many past history of plagues all over it. Eating well, sleep well, and avoiding stress is a way to keep immune system in a healthy condition. Short term stressors cause an immediate increase in epinephrine and nonrepinephrine (means the hormones that make the heart beat feet and makes the feet cold). Cortisol makes you more affected to disease because in white blood cells cortisol turns on TCF to makes its own proteins when its job is to suppress another protein. Because cortisol hold back the immune alertness of the white blood calls it makes people more vulnerable to diseases. The effect of stress lowers immune survellance of doormat infections, which means stress can a factor for cause of disease. So whenever you are stressed by a life event it makes you easily attacked by cancer and diseases. For example: wheever an animal raise its testoronelevel to fight its enemies for mates it becomes more vulnerable to infections.

Genome BOW 1: Intelligence

A gene for intelligence was found in the end of 1977 by a scientist. There is no correct definition of intelligence. It is factors of thinking speed, reasoning ability, memory, vocabulary, mental arithmetic,mental energy. Accoding to Robert Sternberg there are three intelligence that are analytical, creative, and practical. Analytical are people that needs to have the information needed to solve them and have only one right answer and have no intrinsic interest like a school exam. Practical is when you recognize and formulate the problem itself, they are poorly defined, lack relevant information and may not have a single answer but spring directly out of life everyday. It is known that schools and the IQ tests concentrate on analytic and problems. IQ test are unfair because it only focus on certain kinds of minds. IQ stays constant at different ages, ages six and eighteen  will have your intelligence increase fast but your IQ of your peers will change a bit. IQ scores similar with school test results. High IQ children are often to absorb more things that are taught in school. People with high IQ's are said to have more symmetrical bodies ( a measure of how much stress the body was under when developing, stress from infections, toxins, and poor nutrients) had fewer developmental stress in womb or were more resistant to stress during it in a womb.

Extra Credit Blog

Extra Credit Blog:
What topics really confused you?

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
What topics do you feel very clear on?
cells
What lab/ activity was your favorite? Why?
Leaf
What lab/activity was your least favorite? Why?

If you could change something about the class to make it better, for instance the type of homework (not the amount) what would it be and why?
The labs online because it is confusing sometimes.