10/28/2010

Today in class we went over our third infectious disease. the disease was Schistosomiasis. its agent of disease is helminth. It's transmitted by snail infested water. We also watched a video on how people are affected by Maleria in different parts of the world. it wasn't very shocking to see that children were suffering from the disease. I found the video to be very interesting and recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it already.

Agenda:
1. Hand in 20.2 (if not handed in yesterday)
2. Star/Wish/Attendance
3. DOD #3
4. Quiz
5. Video about Maleria

Homework:
1. UP-12 due Friday. (TOMORROW!)
2. read 20.3 and make Double Bubble map- due Monday
3. Disease postcard due on 11/8
Our next scribe is Gabby Savino:)

10/13/2010

Today we had a late arrival so we didn't have time to do much in class but we did check in our cancer graphs and got our stamp sheets stamped. We also took some notes on mitosis and had the rest of the class time to work on our mitosis color code which is homework if you did not finish in class.

Homework
Finish mitosis color code wit annotations due tomorrow.
Work on research for cancer project due on Monday, September 25

Mitosis Notes
G1- cell grows, normal functions of life

S phase- DNA and chromosomes are replicated

G2- cell grows and prepares for mitosis by making proteins and structures needed for division.

M phase- physical division of cell

- in interphase chromosomes appear as chromatin

- when mitosis begins chromatin condenses to form visible chromosomes

- sister chromatids are identical halves of a duplicated chromosome

our next scribe is Michael Ruderman

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