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Explore the field assignment

Essential question:  How does Huntington’s affect someone’s daily life and how did u learn you have Huntington’s disease

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  • A) How does Huntington’s affect someone’s daily life
  • B) How did u learn u have Huntington’s disease
  • C) What were the sign and symptoms of you having Huntington’s disease

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  • A) I would have a better understanding of how he manages with his daily living. Does he need support.
  • B) This can be helpful to the family or people who has a family history of Huntington’s disease so they have to watch out for the first symptoms and get checked out at the doctors

Base off of the information i  read from the websites

A person with Huntington’s experiences poor coordination and uncontrolled movements physical, cognitive and emotional symptoms. There are three main symptoms to Huntington’s, physically you will notice weight loss and have a difficult time walking, talking and swallowing. Cognitively start noticing difficulty planning and focusing and emotionally you will have anxiety, and depression.

I believe that I have a better understanding of Huntington’s and that the information that I’ve read I have clear understanding of the disease its effect to people and their family. The researched helped me understand what can HD do to a person and how it can be detected early ages by knowing the symptoms and can seek medical help therefore for early testing.

Critical questions

  • What is Huntington’s disease
  • When does it effect a person
  • A possible treatment for HD
  • What are signs symptoms for HD

I used different websites to come up with information’s

4. I verified the sites by comparing them and mainly using the verified hospital org.

4. author for neuroscientifcally Walker FO. Huntington’s disease. Lancet. 2007 Jan 20;369(9557):218-28.

I couldn’t find for the other 2

5. I think its a challenge for me because i am not familiar to medical topics and i think i can improve by having more information about the disease

 

  • Links: https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/blog/know-your-brain-huntingtons-disease https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/huntington-s-disease https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191021114920.htm

 

 

 

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Adaptive tech

We began this adaptive technology unit on Sept 24th, 2019 by having a skype chat with Tim Mepham a man with Huntington’s disease after the Skype chat we went straight off to thinking of what should we make him, we figured since he liked drawing we could make something to help him draw but later found some difficulties and possible troubles so we decided to make a simple remote. I learned in this project how to use tinker cad and make a 3d model and print and the first time I’ve ever used one. Sadly we never actually met our goal but we made a design of what our goal would look like, we came to some difficulties making the remote and some trouble working with tinker cad and we pretty much procrastinated through the end of the project.

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How cells multiply

  • Sexual and asexual is 2 different ways of reproduction sexual reproduction requires a 2 parents while asexual only needs one. There are 5 ways of asexual reproductions binary fission, budding, fragmentation, vegetative reproductions and spore formation. One way of mating one allows fertilization to take place, which is the joining of a haploid sperm cell with a haploid egg cell to form a diploid zygote. There are two types of fertilization, external and internal. External fertilization occurs when the sperm and egg cell join outside of the bodies of the parents most commonly used by animals.

 

  • Mitosis and Meiosis both have the same steps but meiosis does it twice and during anaphase the sister chromatids are separated to opposite poles but the thing is that the difference between the two cells that the mitosis involves one cell division and meiosis involves two.

 

  •  Mitoses is where the nuclear contents divide, and two daughter nuclei are formed. It is broken down into four stages prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Early prophase the nucleolus disappears and the spindle fibers, and in late prophase the spindle fibers attach to centromeres of chromosomes. Metaphase the chromosomes align on the eqauter of the cell. Anaphase the spindle fibers pull sister chromatinds to opposite poles of the cell. Lastly telophase is the final stage of Mitosis and its when the spindle fibers disappear and the nuclear membrane forms around each separated set of chromosomes.

 

  • Meiosis produces 4 daughter cells where as Meiosis 2 produces 2 daughter cells. In meiosis 1 the homologous chromosomes separate and in meiosis 2 the sister chromatids separate.

 

  • growth of organisms: The life of a cell is called a cell cycle and it is dived in three stages. The first stage is Interphase and its job is to carry out the cells normal functions. Interphase is the longest cell cycle stage, its when the cell performs and carries out various functions. In late Interphase the DNA copies itself and this process is known as replication. The process of replication involves several steps, the DNA molecule first unwinds the separates with a help of an enzyme, next new bases pair with the bases of the original DNA and at the end two new identical DNA molecules are produced. this continues to make protein till the end of interphase to cytokinesis

 

Advantages

  1.  Large numbers of offspring are reproduced very quickly
  2.  Large colonies can form that can out-compete other organisms for nutrients and water
  3.  Large numbers of organism creates higher success rate of species surviving
  4.  Energy is not required to find a mate

   Disadvantages

    1.  Disease can destroy large numbers of offspring
    2.  Some methods of asexual reproduction produce offspring that are close together leading to compete for food and space
    3.   Extreme temperatures can wipe out entire colonies

Site that helped me https://www.yourgenome.org/

 

 

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Edible DNA

What is DNA: DNA  is a molecule composed of two chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction

What does a DNA do: carries genetic information that is copied when a cell divides

How does the DNA copy itself:  makes a copy of itself during cell division DNA replication is to “unzip” the double helix structure