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.

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.

Blog #12

P1 looks all alike because they contain the dominate gene. Due to that their children will have the dominate trait instead of the recessive. This causes many of the offspring to be either heterozygous or homozygous with the dominate trait.

Blog #11

I believe that parents should be able to select the traits of their children. Children that are born with these selected traits will be freed of all kinds of horrible diseases. They wouldn't have a huge burden on their shoulder of having a disadvantage. Everything would be advanced with this children with good features. Technology would advance and the human race will continue and live on.

Blog #10

Fermented Pickles Recipe

Materials Needed:
2-one gallon crocks or glass jars
4 lbs. of cucumbers
3⁄4 cup kosher salt
1 bunch dill weed
1 head of garlic, peeled
1 onion, sliced
pinch of black peppercorns (optional)
10 grape leaves
1 gallon boiling water

Procedure:
1) Wash cucumbers and insert a bamboo skewer almost all the way in the end.
2) Slice onions, peel the garlic, and rinse the grape leaves.
3) Boil the water and dissolve salt in it.
4) Place 2 or 3 grape leaves at the bottom of the jar and as many cucumbers that fit. Then add 5-6 cloves of garlic, a handful of onion slices, a handful of dill weed, and a pinch of black peppercorns (optional). Put another layer of grape leaves on top.
5) Continue this until jar is full.
6) Pour the hot water into the jar and use a chopstick to poke away the bubbles.
7) Find a plastic lid (follower) that can fit in the jar and that will expand to cover the leaves.
8) Place a smaller jar to have pressure on the follower.
9) Finally, let the jar sit for a few days. (3-7).
10) When they taste right put them in the refridgerator and cover them with a lid.

Fermentation helps make the pickles easier to digest, create new minerals, and helps preserve them.

http://www.learningherbs.com/fermented_foods.html

Blog #8

 Procedures/Protections for entering a hot zone biocontainment facility.
-Guards to keep track of who's going in and out.
-Heavy brick-built building with cement
-Low amount of windows
(Entering)
-Undress of all clothing contacting with skin.
- Put on sterile scrub suit.
- Enter Level 2 ultraviolet lights room.
- Enter Level 3 and put on gloves.
- Apply sticky tape to keep the gloves on.
- Put on helmet and make sure it's on correctly.
- Zip up suit.
- Enter Level 4.

http://www.aia-nj.org/images/des_awards2007/usamriid.jpg

Blog #9

The government should go extremely far in isolating infectious carriers. The army should also be involved in keeping them in a certain location. The reason why I believe this is because this disease can spread very quickly and kill millions, maybe even billions, of people. Just like shown in the movie "Outbreak" the Motaba disease will spread and infect the entire United States in only 48 hours. By using exterme measures, this can be prevented and instead of the whole country being killed, only a few thousand will perish and millions will be saved.