Wish

If you could have one Christmas wish what would it be?

Gymnosperms

What are some of the different types of gymnosperms?

Pollen

How does pollination help with plant reproduction?

Differences

What is the difference between a gymnosperm and an angiosperm?

Liverworts

What is a liverwort???

Different Plants

What is the difference between vascular and nonvascular plants?

Water lose

How do plants prevent water lose???

Photowhat????

What is photosynthesis?? Why do plants use it??

Plant

What makes a plant, a plant? What is your favorite type of plant?

tinea capitis

What is tinea capitis? Explain.

Toenail Fungus

What is toenail fungus, how do you get it, and how do you treat it???

Mushroom

What did you learn from the dissection of the mushroom?

AF

How is althelts foot spread and cured?

What is this

Is ringworm a fungus or is it a worm??

Corn

What is corn smut?? What does it affect and what does it cause?

Your Fungi

What is one thing that you have learned about your fungi that you will be presenting on?

Relationship

What type of relationship do fungi and lichens have? Example.

Zygote

What are zygote fungi?? Give an example.

Club

What is club fungi?? Give an example.

Chytrids

What is the chytrids group of fungi?

Fungi

What is fungus?? Give an example of your favorite or least favorite fungi.

Microscope

What explain what the different types of protists look like under the microscope?

Chagas disease

What causes Chagas disease and what are the signs and symptoms of the disease?

Malaria

What is Malaria and how does it affect the human body??

Protists

Give an example of a protists and the disease it causes?

Algae

What are the difference between the three different types of algae?

Protists

What are the three catergories of protists and give one example?

Diatoms

What are Diatoms? Explain what they are and where they live.

Asexual Reproduction

What is the difference between binary fission and budding?

Protists

What are Protists?

Germ Theory

What is the Germ Theory??

HIV

How does HIV Reproduce? Look on page 479.

Shapes

What are the different shapes of bacteria?? What do they help you do?

Movie

What is something that you learned from the movie yesterday?

Emerging diseases

What is an emerging disease? Give an example.

A.R.

What is Antibiotic Resistance mean? What are some of the consequences of resistance?

Koch

What is Koch's Postulate?

Prions

What are Prions?

Viroids

What is a viroids?

Viruses

What is something that you have learned about the virus that you are researching?

Lytic Cycle

Explain the Lytic Cycle?

DNA vs RNA

What is the difference between DNA viruses and RNA viruses?

Capsid

What is a capsid? Is it found in a viruses or bacteria or both?

Staining

What is the hardest part of gram staining?

Tail Fibers.

What are tail fibers?? p477 text book

Alive

Are Viruses alive or are they dead?

Endo What

Why would bacteria form endospores??

What

How is Genetic Recombination used with bacteria?

Important Bacteria

How are bacteria important to an ecosystem?

Reproduction

How do bacteria reproduce? Explain the process.

Bacteria

Explain the difference between a photoautotroph and a chemoautotrophs?

Blog

How is it to make your blogs? What have you learned by making your blog?

Bacteria Research

What is three facts that you have found out about the bacteria that you are researching?

Is a Virus Alive?

Are virus alive or not?

Growth

What kind of growth did you have in your petri dishes? What area had the most bacteria growth?

Today

We are going to collect bacteria today in class. What type of bacteria do you think that we will find around the school and where do you think that we will find the most bacteria?

Agar

After today's class what do you think the hardest part about making agar?

Bacteria

What is the difference between gram-positive and gram negative bacteria?

Viruses vs Bacterium

What is the difference between a viruses and a bacterium?

Homecoming

What is something that you are looking forward to this week for homecoming?

Chapter 20

What are the topics in chapter 20?

Works

Can you relate some part of homecoming week to how a cell works?

Life

What are the five requirements for life and why are they important?

Organ systems

What are the six different types of body organ systems and how do they differ?

Inside the cell

What is the importance of the organelles within a cell? What is the internal factor that they are trying to maintain?

Cell City

Why is your cell city the best city ever?

Importance

What is the important organelle in the cell, Explain your answer?

City

What is the reasoning behind some of the buildings that you picked for your cell city?

Stories

The powerpoints that all of you did where great. What was you inspriation behind your stories? Do you think that little kids would be able to understand them or not?

Water

Why is water able to move into and outof a cell so easy?

The bodies cells

Why do some of the cells in the body have such a complex chemical makeup?

The bodies cells

Why do some of the cells in the body have such a complex chemical makeup?

The weekend

Well we had our first three day weekend. So let me ask you if you would gather have four day weeks or five day weeks. Explain your answer.

Organelles

Name 3 organelles that you think are important, tell me their function, and why you think that organelle is so important.

Cells

What are some of the difference between Prokaryotic and Eudaryotic Cells?

Energy

What is the bodies form of energy and what is the process which it is created from?

Requirements for Life

Do you feel that there should be more of less requirments for life, do you feel that some of the requirments of life should be changed, explain why?

Welcome Back

Well I hope that everyone had a great summer. I know that I did. Why don't we start they year off easy. Tell me something that you did this summmer.

Welcome Back

Well I hope that everyone had a great summer. I know that I did. Why don't we start they year off easy. Tell me something that you did this summmer.

Tonegawa Susumu

Who is Tonegawa Susumu?

Hugh Esmor Huxley

Who is Hugh Esmor Huxley?

James Dewey Watson

Who is James Dewey Watson?

STD's Protection

What are some of the ways that you can protect yourself against STD's?

Sex in the media

What is your view of sex in the media?

Contraceptives

Is there a big difference between the different types of contraceptives?

STD's

What is something that you learned about STD's that you didn't know before you took your quizzes yesterday?

Having a Baby

Can a women get pregnant everyday of the month or not? Explain the purpose of your answer.

Cats

What do you think is going to be in your stomach when you open it up?

Food through the body

What is the path that food follows as it enters the body to the point that it leaves the body?

Digestive system

What do you think is the best organ in the digestive system and explain why?

Blood Clot

What might occur if a blood clot where to develop within the artiries or viens in the human body?

Arteries

What are some of the many arteries of the body? Where do they go and what cells do they supply nuirents too?

Electricity

How does the heart's electrical system help to keep your heart beating?

Cardiac tamponade

What is cardiac tamponade? How does it occur (what causes it)?

Heart Attack

What is the drug that is recommended for people to take at home when they think that they are having a heart attack? How does this simple help the person?

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day! :) What are three things that you can do in our home to help save the Earth and to would help your parents save money?

Heart Chambers

What are the different chambers of the heart and how do they differ?

Smoking and Your Heart

What does smoking do to your heart? We all know what it will do to your lungs but what will it do to your heart?

Heart Health

Why is it imporant to take care of yourself when you are young to help decrease your chances of heart disease? What are something that you can do now to help out now?

Link between age and memory lose

Why do some people who are older have a great memory and others start to lose their memory? What is the link bewteen learning and extended memory?

Emotiv Systems

Tell me about the new gaming system that Emotiv Systems and how it works with your brain.

Brain Function

In what part of the brain do you feel has the most important brain function? Example, the pons, cerebellum, frontal lobe, etc .....

Legal Limits

Do you feel some drugs should be legal or do you feel the legal limit for some drugs, like alcohol, should be lower? If they the laws were to change how do you think the government should control these substances?

What do you think?

What drug do you feel is the biggest problem in South Dakota? Do you think that drugs are something that affects a lot of students in this area?

Drugs, Why Say No

Explain the effects of your drug on a person brain and what are some of the set affects a person is going to have when they take this drug.

Drugs and Your Brain

How does drugs affect your brain? Pick one drug and explain how it affects your brain.

Nerve vs Muscle

Describe the similarities between a nerve impulse and a muscle contraction.

The History of the Brain

Tell me three things that you learned from going through the history of the brain.

Disconnection Syndrome

What is disconnection syndrome and what happens to people that are effected by this syndrome?

Cerebrum

What are the different portions of the cerebrum and what is at least one of their functions?

Damage

What happens to the brain when one portion is damaged while the other portion is left unharmed? Is a person still able to function or not?

Skin and nerves

Relating back to the skin explain how you where able to go from the skin to the brain when it comes to the sense of touch?

ITs bad for you

What happen to the impulse which goes through your nerves when you intake drugs and alcohol?

Fibromyalgia

What is Fibromyalgia? What does it affect and what is the treatment for this disease?

Different Neurons

Why does the body need three different types of neurons? Explain.

Epilepsy

What is epilepsy and how does this disease relate to the nervous system?

Nervous system

The Nervous system is broken up into different sections. What are at least two of the different section of the nervous system and what do they do?

Neurons

What is the different between a bipolar neuron, unipolar neuron, and a multipolar neuron?

Cardiac Muscle

The cardiac muscle for the body is located in the heart. What makes this type of muscle so important and how does it differ from skeletal and smooth muscle?

Torticollis

What is torticollis and what causes it?

Cat Muscles

What are the superficial muscle that are to be I.D.ed on your cats?

What is this Disease

What is myasthenia gravis? Do you need to worry about getting this disease?

Journals

When writing your first journal yesterday for your cats why did you use anatomical terms to describe your cat? Why is it important to use anatomical terminology when make reference to parts of the body?

Cats

After having one day on the cats and going on day today. What did you find out that you like or dislike about the cats?

Yesterday

What was the best part about going to Presentation College yesterday?

MS

What are muscular dystrophies and how do they affect the human body?

Muscles

Out of all of the muscles in the body which do you feel it the most important cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, and smooth muscle.

White vs Red

What is the difference between white and red muscle cell?

Muscle Books

After starting your muscle books yesterday what are some of the muscle that you found easy to find, and why.

Sliding Filament Theory

Describing what is occurring in the sliding filament theory.

What the difference

What is the difference between complete and imcomplete tetanus?

Neuromuscular junction

In your own words describe the steps of the neuromuscular junction.

Energy in a Muscle Cell

By looking at the information that we went over on on Friday how does a muscle cell produce energy differently from a normal cell?

Explain this

Explain how a cross-bridge stroke occurs in a muscle cell.

Muscles

Within a large muscle there are different layers. What are those layers and how do they allow the muscle to work?

What's the diff

What is the difference between the origin and insertion of a muscle?

Muscle Tissue

What are the three main types of muscle tissue and how do they differ from one another?

You tell me

What is something that you would like to learn about that deals with the muscles?

Greenhouse Affect

February 13, 2008; Page A26
The ink is still moist on Capitol Hill's latest energy bill and, as if on cue, a scientific avalanche is demolishing its assumptions. To wit, trendy climate-change policies like ethanol and other biofuels are actually worse for the environment than fossil fuels. Then again, Washington's energy neuroses are more political than practical, so it's easy for the Solons and greens to ignore what would usually be called evidence.

The Wall Street Journal

Is this bill going to save our energy? What do you think should be done to solve your Greenhouse Affect or is it not a problem?

Steriods and Athletes

Your body produces steriods natural but they aren't the same as the steriods that athletes take to help get the bigger muscles. What are some of the set effects that you can find on steriod consumption?

The Muscles

What does it mean to talk about the insertion, orgin, and action of a mucle?

Fat? No Food for You!

By Lisa Stein

We kid you not. The controversial measure (state House Bill 282) would prohibit eateries from serving food to "any person who is obese based on criteria prescribed by the state health department." The department would monitor compliance and have the power to revoke violators' permits. (Pity the poor waiter with the thankless task of denying corpulent customers service, leaving them with the humiliating dilemma of either twiddling their thumbs as their less hefty chums chow down or slinking (storming?) out and slogging to a supermarket or over the state line for sustenance.)

Is this a step for stopping the weight problem in the US or is this just the governments way of controlling the people?

Evolution of the Bones

How have you seen the bones of the body have developed and changed in the past million years?

One Embryo from Three Parents

British researchers today are reporting a potential new technique to spare thousands of children each year from a group of deadly inheritable diseases known collectively as mitochondrial disease.
These diseases might be prevented by genetically altering human embryos, which are the product of two mothers and one father, the researchers said.

Should be able to take information from different people to make sure that a healthly child is born or should we just leave this process up to mother nature.

After Today

Today you went to hear a speaker talk to you about Martin Luther King, one of the greatest men of our time. I want you to tell me about one African American Scientist that contributed in the area of Biology and what did he do?

HPV-Linked Oral Cancer In Men Increasing

A new study by researchers in the US suggests that the human papillomavirus (HPV) causes as many cases of oral cancer in men as tobacco and alcohol and will overtake the latter within the next ten years. They suggest the main reasons are changes in men's sexual behaviour and the decline in oral cancers not caused by HPV.

So far, the primary argument for vaccinating men has been to stop the virus spreading to women and cutting down cervical cancer cases. But research on men is catching up, and there is mounting evidence that vaccinating boys will also benefit men directly. Apart from oral cancer, HPV also causes genital warts, penile and anal cancer.

How do you feel about not having an approved vaccination for men against HPV>

Madison Company Develops HPV Test

According to the American Cancer Society, more than 11,000 women will develop cervical cancer this year and more than 3,500 will die. Doctors said the disease is highly treatable and has a 92 percent survival rate if caught early enough, WISC-TV reported.

Cervical cancer is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). It is estimated that eight in 10 women will have HPV by the time they are 50. Some women might have, or have had HPV, and might not know it because they can be asymptomatic.

Until now, women only had one way to detect cervical cancer -- a Pap test.
From its inception in 1955 until the early 1990s, the Pap test was responsible for bringing down cervical cancer rates by 74 percent. But those statistics haven't changed much in the last 20 years.

The typical Pap test misses precancerous cells up to 50 percent of the time. But doctors said when the Pap test is combined with a test for HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer, accuracy rates are nearly 100 percent.

Do you think that this new test is going to help prevent/save a lot of women from cervical cancer or is it to soon to say how well this test is going to work?

The BONES

What is the hardest part about knowing the bones of the body?

Your Idea

What is something that you have learned about the bone disorder that you are currently researching?

Osteoporosis

What is osteoporosis and how do you prevent it?

Broken Bones

Have you ever broken a bone? If so what bone did you break.

Lumbago

What is lumbago and what causes it?

Skull

What are the five bones of the skull that you feel are the most important?

What is this?

What is laminectomy and why does it occur?

Cloning Said to Yield Human Embryos

By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: January 18, 2008



The work represents a step toward the promise of creating personalized embryonic stem cells that could be used for medical treatments. Although the embryos grew only to a very early stage, the work could also theoretically be seen as a step toward creating babies that are genetic copies of other people.



The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html?ref=us



Should we be able to clone people or is this ethically wrong?

Ranch Sells Beef for Dinner, Bones for Surgery

By Alexis Madrigal

Foot bones from Prather Ranch cows are cleaned, then turned into a variety of implants for humans, including these screws for knee surgeries.

Is it right that we are using animal bones to fix human problems? Do you think that there will be side affects of doing this in the long run?

Stronger Bones

There are new finding out that say some calcium pills, which people take to make strong bones, double your risk of a heart attack. What is this going to do to the thousand of people that take these calcium pills everyday?

Did you know

Check out the story on this page and tell me what your bones can do for you.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070811/fob1.asp

Skeletal Discovery: Bone cells affect metabolism

It was discovered that your bones could be licked back to diabetes in some cases. Could we really solve a problem like diabetes by fixing your bones.

Tell me what you think. full story at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070811/fob1.asp

Scientists Reveal Role Of Gene In Sensitivity To Thermal Pain

Did you know: Depending on the size of the individual, there are between 1.5 and 2 million sensory receptors in the skin which are sensitive to pain, pressure (touch) and temperature. These specialized sensory neurons, also called nociceptors, detect painful thermal and mechanical stimulation of the skin and transmit the information to the brain, where it is processed and consciously experienced as pain.

Scientists have altered a gene so that test animals, mice, don't feel pain or temperature as soon as they normally would. What could something like this be used for and is it ethical right to change our genetic makeup?

Homeostasis

Who does your skin help our body's to maintain homeostasis?

Skin Disease

Out of the presentations given in class which one was the most interesting or the most informative to you.

Ethanol

The news now is that grass makes better ethanol than corn. What is going to happen to all of the ethanol plants in South Dakota that were made to convert corn into ethanol and are not able to do this with grass? Will this in the long run harm the economy of South Dakota?

Brain Power

What does it take to discover something new everyday?

Laughing

The BBC has published a report that tells us that humans are not the only animals to have emotion, like happiness. Primates have been seen laughing. Does this help to prove an evolutionary like between humans and primates?