Thursday, November 11, 2010

No school Thursday!!!

Our Agenda on Wednesday Was:
1. Hand in 12.2 notes/strategy
2. We got our grade reports
3. We learned about our new unit(DNA)
*Looked over the tribune article on UP 3-4
*Learned about the structure of DNA

Our Homework Was:
1. The Tribune Article (on UP 3-4) due 11/23
2. UP 7-8 (make sure to color EVERYTHING even if it doesn't have a letter) due Friday

We took some notes about DNA(deoxyribo nucleic acid) here they are:
-Nucleotides are the building blocks/subunits of DNA
.Nucleotides contain three things:
1.Sugar(deoxyribose)
2.Nitrogen Base
3.Phosphate Group(PO4)
-Nitrogen Bases:
.Purines: Guanine and andenine
.Pyrimidines: Thymine and Cytozine
ATCGTACGGGCAATT is an example of an order code to make proteins.

Hope you enjoyed my post and slept in today! School tomorrow then the weekend :)

Our next scribe is Bailey

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