Friday, December 10, 2010

Chewing Lab

Hypothesis:
Our hypothesis was that when Sarah and Maria ate sour skittles, we would see a noticeable difference in their mV per second. We also predicted that when they ate chocolate, boklava, and gum their amount of mV per seconds would be very similar. We thought these things because Maria usually eats more sour things, while Sarah prefers sweets. We knew the sweet items wouldn’t cause a great change in mV per second because sweets don’t cause the jaw to clench up as sour or bitter tastes would. Because Maria is used to eating sour food and Sarah is not, we predicted that Sarah’s mV per second jump compared to Maria’s.

Materials:
  1. Lab Pro
  2. Electro -Tabs
  3. Food Types
    1. Sour Skittles
    2. Baklava
    3. Chocolate
    4. Gum


Experiment:
First we placed the electro tabs on the upper and lower portion jaw and arm. Then we recorded the mV the resting period for five seconds, then the clenching period for five seconds, for a total of 30 seconds. After recording this we, we add food to the process. First we recorded a ten second resting period, then had Sarah and Maria put skittles in their mouth then chewed for 20 seconds. We repeated these steps with chocolate, baklava and gum. We then recorded our data and graphed it.

Results:
The results we found after doing out experiment showed when Sarah ate sour skittles, her m/v per second was really high. Yet, when Maria had ate the same skittles, her jaw was normal. We decided that this was due to Maria being so used to eating sour food, where Sarah was not. After Sarah and Maria ate the sweets, we noticed Sarah’s mV per second was a bit lower than Maria’s. We also found that with our last material, gum, Sarah’s and Maria’s mV were very alike, and continual pattern.This was because Sarah and Maria chewed there gum at a consistent pace.






Sarah RestingSarah ClenchingMaria RestingMaria Clenching
Min:.9133.7485.9328.9145
Max:1.1321.5371.1151.147
Difference.2187.7885.1822.2325










SKITTLESSarah RestingSarah ChewingMaria RestingMaria Chewing
Min:.6862.6862.9084.7814
Max:1.4651.8671.1321.391
Diff:.77881.1808.2236.6096












CHOCOLATESarah RestingSarah ChewingMaria RestingMaria Chewing
Max:1.2161.3971.1311.477
Min:.8962.8535.9267.8230
Diff:.3198.5435.2043.652










BAKLAVASarah RestingSarah ChewingMaria RestingMaria Chewing
Max:1.2771.5071.2051.357
Min:.8510.8230.9499.8400
Diff:.426.684.1861.517










GUMSarah RestingSarah ChewingMaria RestingMaria Chewing
Max:1.2251.2341.1361.357
Min:.8400.8120.9499.8400
Diff:.385.422.1861.517


Thursday, December 9, 2010

Cell structure

There are many different types of cells. Most of them are really small. Some you can't even see without a microscope. Well the the ones we seen we need a microscope to see them. The things that i read about are plant cells i remember talking about plants cells a long time ago, but I can't remember them all that well.
The size of a cell is small that's probably why we can't see them.
There is a cell theory and it states that 1)all organisms are composed of cells, 2) Cells are the basic units of structure and function in organisms, and 3) cells come only from preexisting cells because cells are self-reproducing. Cell are quiet small as i said before. A frogs egg is about 1 millimeter in diameter and it is large enough to be seen by an human eye. Most cells are smaller than 1mm.
I learned to different types of cells. There is the Animal cell and the plant cell.


There are many functions of each cell pictured above. 
I'll explain some few major parts of the animal cell first. 

One of the parts of the animal cell is the Peroxisome. It is the vesicle that has various functions. Its functions are it breaks down fatty acids and converts resulting hydrogen peroxide to water.

 Another one is the Mitochondrion. It is organelle that carries out cellular respiration producing ATP molecules. 

Next is the Rough ER and the Smooth ER. The Rough ER studded with ribosomes. It is also called The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER). It is a network of membranes extented from the outer nuclear membrane used for protein synthesis and transport. It is divided into two section each with different special functions. As for the smooth ER it is The function is the sam as the Rough ER, but it lacks ribosomes synthesis and lipid molecules. 

Another one is the Nucleus. It is the central structure which contains the cell's genetic material.

The Centrosome. It is a cell structure which generally contains a pair of centrioles, used by the cell for microtubule organisation.

The Golgi Apparatus is a cell structure used to modify, store, and transport products of the ER. It is composed of a grouped series of membrane sacks.


The lysosome main function of these microscopic organelles is to serve as digestion compartments for cellular materials that have exceeded their lifetime or are otherwise no longer useful. Lysosomes break down cellular waste products, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and other macromolecules into simple compounds, which are then transferred back into the cytoplasm as new cell-building materials.

The plasma Membrane is all living cells, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, have a plasma membrane that encloses their contents and serves as a semi-porous barrier to the outside environment. The membrane acts as a boundary, holding the cell constituents together and keeping other substances from entering. 


Now for the Plant Cell


CELL WALL
Another structure that makes this a plant cell is the cell wall. It holds the contents of the cell nicely in shape. A way to demonstrate that would be to take a piece of wood in your left hand and a piece of meat in your right hand. 

CHLOROPLAST

 It has a number of green organelles called the chloroplasts. They have a strange name, because chloros means yellow in Greek. This is where the hard work of producing sugars from carbon dioxide goes on. In the process oxygen is released. 

Thylakoid

The membrane plays an important role in separating the inside (lumen) and the outside (stroma) of the thylakoid. 

MITOCHONDRION

Another power plant in the cell is the mitochondrion. While chloroplasts run on sunlight, this organelle runs on coal well on sugars, that is. In the process of respiration, mostly occuring inside the mitochondrion, ATP is produced, which can be used to run other important processes in the cell.

Crista

This membrane contains many different proteins, most of them required for aerobic respiration.

NUCLEUS

There's generally only one nucleus per cell. It contains DNA held together by proteins.

Fluid Mosaic Model


Me and my group had recently did a Fluid Mosaic Model. Each of us had different jobs to do. Some of the features that ours included were the integral Protein, Hydrophobic helix Phaspholipid chokesterol oligsaccharide and Glycolipid. I don't even know how to describe how it looks like, but to me maybe a hill with long thin worms hanging out. Also with potatoes look like. After we have finished our drawing we had to come up with questions that will help us with our model. Then after we had to go around and look at others to see what theres were about and learn about each and everyones model. It was fun drawing it , but the hard part was coloring it so we know what each part was. Some parts i got confused and others I learned some but not a lot. I still need some understanding on what things are.

Photosynthesis Dry lab

Procedures
1. Add 3ml of water and 3ml of bromothymol blue, blow through a straw to form bubbles and Observe and explain what happens.

2. Add 3ml of water and 3ml of bromothymol blue but this time add in an aquarium snail.Let the snail sit for about an hour or so if nothing happens stir up and see. Observe what happens.

3. Add 3ml of water and 3ml of bromothymol blue. Then add 3 elodea and 2 aquarium plants. Leave in light for 3 hours and Observe what you see.

4. Add 3ml of water and 3ml of bromothymol blue. Add a snail 4 elodea. Leave in light for 15 minutes. Observe and see what happens, then remove from light and leave in dark for 3 hours. Observe and see what happens.

Observations
Bromothymol blue is a blue-green liquid which changes to a yellow color in acid and back to blue-green when returned to a neutral pH Deals with the first step. Also with the 2nd and the 4th step.

Animals respire deals with step 2 just because a snail is added.

Sugar plus oxygen yields carbon dioxide plus water energy has to deal with step 4. Its in light which has the energy in it.

Carbon Dioxide plus water yields sugar and oxygen when chlorophyll and sunlight are present has to deal with step 4 as well due to sunlight.

Carbon dioxide in water produces carbonic acid deals with step 1.
Questions
1. Why does Carbon Dioxide turn water colors?
2. How do Plants breathe under water?
3. What effect does the snail have when it it added in the bromothymol blue and water

Monday, November 15, 2010

Microscope

            We been looking throw a microscope for a while now and we looked at some pretty gross things. Like the onion layer. It looked weird. Then we looked at our own piece of skin or cells in our mouths. That didn't look to good. We evened looked at my nail. It looked dark and ugly. I didn't even think that my nail would look like that since it don't look like that just when you look at it. Then we also looked at some living cells in dirty water. They moved all over the place. As you look closely at them they look just like the movie we watch about them. There green with a red dot for an eye. They moved so quickly. We lost a few so we had to find them again.
          What we also focused on was getting the microscope to really focus on what we were looking at. Certain levels mean how close you view an object. Some levels don't really work that well when your trying to really look closely at it. Sometimes if you get to close you can get crap on the lenses and thats not good to do.
          Also I  learned the proper way to put the microscope away. I didn't at first. I didn't even know there was a proper way, but know I do. The smaller lens facing out. I don't really member why, but thats all i remember is the proper way to put them away.
      

Monday, November 8, 2010

Playing with cereal

Playing with cereal was fun. A bunch of us grabbed some cereal in a cup and some string. What we had to do was put the string through each fruit loop and continue till its a long string of fruit loops.Us three combined ours together to make protein. Each color represents a different types of amino acids. Although there was 20 different amino acids in a protein molecule we only used the colors that they had which were about 5 or 6. Me and my partners Desi and Brianna Combined our Cereal string and made a collagen protein.  In this activity the proteins are never the same no matter the shape, color. form, or structure.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Carbohydrate ID lab



In the Carbohydrate ID Lab we used Starch Flour Glucose and a Pop-tart, as well as a boiler. We mixed all these substances with Iodine or Benedict. Iodine is a dark blackish brownish color and benedict is a blue color. Mixing these two substance with any of the other substances determined what we created. Some we Boiled and some we didn't.  In the lab results you can see what ones we boiled and what ones we didn't.


Lab Results

Iodine + Starch =  Poly
   When we mixed these two together We came out with poly. It didn't do Nothing just turned black when we added the iodine

Starch + Benedict = poly     Boiled
   When we added starch and benedict and boiled it we still came out with another poly. Nothing changed just that it turned black.

Flour + Benedict = poly       Boiled
     When we added Flour and benedict and boiled it we came out with again another poly. No change just turned black

Flour + Iodine = Poly
     When we added flour and Iodine with no boil it still came out to be a poly.

Glucose + Benedict = Mono    Boiled
    When we added Glucose and benedict and boiled it we got a change it turned orange and became a  
    Mono.

Flour is mostly Poly 

Pop Tart + Benedict = Poly    Boiled
      Even with pieces of food with Benedict turned into Poly.

From doing this lab We have learned that all Carbohydrate have monosaccharides and sometimes put together in BIGGER chains to make Polysaccharides.