Journal Entry Week 7

This week in biology we have gotten the concept for monosaccharides down pretty easily I think, but now we are moving to disaccharides and they are harder to comprehend. Especially when making a punnett square because instead of four possibilities there are now sixteen and finding the possibilities for the parents even before the children is tricky because there are four letters in each parent. We have had two snow days this week which have been great but now we don't have a spring break, except for "good Friday" and "good Monday". Also we have been doing StudyIsland some this week, and on Tuesday we have to present our projects on diseases. Luke and I have Huntington's disease, I'm a little nervous but I think we have this one.

Journal Entry Week 6

This week in biology we learned about DNA and the process of protein synthesis. It is a very interesting subject to talk about, but I do think that this will be a difficult six weeks. Attendance will be necessary! It is a process of steps and if you miss one step you will be behind for the rest of the process. I think converting DNA into mRNA and tRNA is fun and is not as difficult as I thought it would be and I'm excited to see what will be next, I know it won't be easy but at least it will be interesting.

Journal Entry Week 5

This week in biology we had a lab on mitosis and got to look at onion root tips to see all of the processes. It was pretty interesting and looked just like it did in the pictures, I thought that was a little unusual because most of the time it's the exact opposite to me. We also had our second unit test and I did much better than last time, even though I would still like to raise my score some more. It was a productive week and a great way to end the grading period, because now I have an A.

Journal Entry Week 4

This week in biology we watched Jurassic Park and did a webquest on it, it was a pretty interesting movie and it does connect with DNA and other things that we are studying right now. It also shows all of the things that could possibly go wrong when creating dinosaurs. I believe that if we were to be able to do this at some point that it would become a reality. I don't think that will ever be possible though because in the movie when they make the DNA strands for the dinosaurs they fill any gaps with frog DNA. We all know that it would not be possible to do that, and that finding dinosaur DNA, an egg to hold the dinosaur until it hatched, and other major things needed to create one would be nearly impossible to find.