Thursday, January 13, 2011

Blog #14 (Favorite/Least Favorite Activity)

My favorite topic was the energy with chips experiment. The activity was pretty fun and interesting to burn them and see how the temperature changed.  The was kind of weird how some of the chips would catch on fire faster and last longer than the others. I thought that was pretty interesting to see and test out.

My least favorite topic was the karaoke project. I didn't really like finding a song to create our own lyrics to. It seemed to take a lot of work to do all that. The one thing that I would change about that would be that we didn't have to sing it out loud to the class but we could've put the background music and the lyrics on the screen and everybody could sing along while earning extra credit.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Blog #13

DNA has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating crimes and finding out the true suspect. It is possible to identify the suspect through a single strand of hair! You would be able to find out their gender, ethnic background, age, and much more. Genealogical DNA tests and DNA profiling are the two main tests for investigation. Genealogical DNA tests examine the nucleotides of a person and provide genealogical information about the person. DNA profiling are encrypted sets of numbers that make up a person's DNA makeup.