Sammy Sperm

Sammy sperm was born in a city called Testis, and was given birth by the meiosis family. However Sammy grew up in a town called Epididymus where he lived his childhood and matured. Sammy decided to go on a search for the perfect egg when he matured. So Sammy packed his bags, left all his friends, and drove for Van Deferens Highway, a very long path. After a long drive he reached Lake Bladder, and then stopped at Seminal Vehicle Diner where he ate dinner. Sammy continued driving through Lake Bladder until he reached Urethra Expressway, the home stretch! The Expressway way known for its acid rain, so Sammy took a pit stop at the Prostate Gland Acid Proofing Shop, and the Cowper’s Gland Lube Shop. This would prevent any uncalled for stops. he was now travelling faster than ever before as he crossed over into some foreign territory, Vaginaland. Upon his arrival, he passed Cervix Station and  quickly made his way to a nice town called Uterusville where he hoped to find Ms Right, but could not. Sammy kept trucking along until the road split between the Right Oviduct Road or Left Oviduct Road. He after a hard decision, he took the left route until he bumped into Ms Ovum, the perfect egg. They both moved back to Uterusville, settled into a nice part of the womb, and after a while had a baby of their own.

Mutant Bee

Bee A’s mutations was it having four antennas. This mutation would be a positive mutation because since the bee has 4 antennas rather than two, it would have double the sense and have a survival advantage.

 

Bee B’s mutation was it having a smaller stinger. This mutation would be a neutral mutation because there are many bees that have small stingers and live the same as bees with larger stingers. (⤵ reference)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee

 

Bee C’s mutation was it having no wings. This mutations would be a negative mutation. If a bee could not fly it would become useless to its’ colony because it would not be able to bring back necat or pollen. The bee also would be to many predators be cause there bees could not escape.

 

I now understand much more about mutations than I once did. Mutations can be caused by the slightest change in the order of the bases, (A, T, C, G) and the outcome can either be neutral, positive or negative and could easily impact the survivability of animals.

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DNA Bracelet

The pieces of cereal represent the 4 bases in DNA, Guanine (G) = purple cereal, Cytosine (C) = pink cereal, Adenine (A) = green cereal, Thymine (T)= yellow cereal. When put into codons, they represent the 20 amino acids and a letter of our alphabet. Since there are more letters than amino acids, some codons just represented a letter and not an amino acid. My entire message represented my last name which is Hrycan. It represented the following amino acids which are Histidine, Arginine, Tyrosine, Cysteine, Alanine, and Asparagine in that order. The codon was cat, cgt, tac, tgc, gct, and aac in that order. To get the instructions of DNA to the ribosomes outside of the nucleus, messenger RNA is made. Messenger RNA is a short strand of genetic information that carries the instructions from one gene on DNA. mRNA is short enough to fit through the pores in the nuclear membrane. The ribosome holds onto the mRNA, reads the instructions and links together amino acids (protein building blocks).

 

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