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Sandra Bullock

L’anniversaire de Sandra Bullock est 26 julliet 1964. Sandra Bullock a 51. Elle est belle. Sandra Bullock est creative et drôle. Elle fait du jogging. Sandra Bullock a deux enfants et un mari. Son mari nom est Jesse G. James. Leurs enfants noms est Louis Bado et Laila. Elle a une soeur. Elle travaille comme une actrice. Sandra Bullock choisit d’etre une fondatrice de Fortis Films. Elle a deux prix. Un Oscar et un Golden Globe. J’aime The Heat.

    

Sammy the sperm story

I was born like any other sperm in the Testis hospital. My parents were in love with me as soon as they saw me. They named me Sammy. After a few days in the hospital i moved into the epididymis where I grew and grew and grew. I got pretty big. When I got old enough it was time for me to move out. So I packed my things and traveled along the Vas Deferens highway. I passed by lake bladder, where I used to go swimming as a child. So many good memories. After about a day’s journey I stopped and ate at the seminal vesical diner.After I was refreshed I kept going. At the Prostate Acid proofing. I got a nice clean of any urine. I was getting kind of nervous because after that I got on the urethra express way and there was no turning back. But I took a deep breath and got on. I got through fairly easily.
I finally got to vagina land. I swam up uterus ville where I would soon be moving with my egg. After a long and tiring journey I got to Oviduct road and turned left. I saw the most beautiful egg in the whole wide reproduction system. Her name was Ms. Ovum. It was love at first sight. Together we broke out of the egg’s membrane and planted ourselves in our new house along uterus ville. The end.

Mutagen Story

Mutagen story
ADL
1.What happened to the gene?
Why did that happen?
What happened to the body?
How did it affect the body?
When do you know you have turner?
2.I used Google.
3.I found reliable sources that looked like their information was correct.
4.I copy and pasted the link
5. It was good. I wish I put in more detail.
Story of Turner Syndrome
I am a gene that lives in a female’s body. You see I am rare; I only exist 1 of 2,500 girls. My host Olivia was born with only one X chromosome, when she should have two. That’s what happened to her. No one knows why so many girls are born with only one X chromosome but it happens. Olivia was born like a normal girl but because of me she won’t be able to do lots of things that a girl can do.
Olivia didn’t know that she had turner syndrome until she was 12. Olivia was not going through puberty like most girls do at her age. Another sign was that she was really short and her parents are both really tall. Tons more signs were discovered in Olivia like droopy eyelids, dry eyes, low ears. There were multiple tests that she could go through but she chose an Ultrasound of reproductive organs and kidneys. The doctor told her that she was missing an X chromosome. In all girls you should have two XX chromosomes to be a girl. To be a boy you would have XY chromosomes. Only in some of her cells will Olivia be missing an X cell not all of them. So Olivia was missing a sex cell.
When Olivia was diagnosed she was given growth hormones to make her grow taller. They did help but she only reached the height of 4.7. Olivia also went through Estrogen replacement therapy. This pretty much just helps trigger puberty.
Olivia still went to school but had a lot of trouble in math, and reading maps. Olivia couldn’t really picture things in her mind she needed a visual right in front of her to be able to picture it again.
Olivia grew older and was not able to have kids because turner syndrome prevents her ovaries from growing properly. Her options were to either have a donor or adopt. Olivia adopted with her husband. Fortunately because of her infertility she was unable to pass down the gene of turner syndrome.

Websites that I used:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000379.htm
http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/genetic/turner.html

Edible DNA

What is DNA?
DNA is made up of two strands that wrap around each other with Nitrogen bases that kind of look like steps in between. This is called a double Helix. The strands are made of alternating sugar and phosphate. The Nitrogen bases can be made of adenine (A), Thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine(C). Each base always pairs up with a certain other base. A can only paired with T and G can only be paired with C. And visa versa. DNA is what tells your cells what you look like. If you have blond or brown hair  or if you have blue or brown eyes. Pretty much all your characteristics.

Explain what the following model pieces are. Marshmallows, licorice, toothpicks.
The marshmallows represent the different nitrogen bases. Yellow represented Adenine, orange represented thymine, green represented guanine, and pink represented cytosine. The licorice was the strands of sugar and phosphate. Although we only had one colour of licorice. The toothpicks are the nitrogen bases.

Did this activity help you understand the structure of DNA?
Yes it did. It helped me understand where everything goes in a DNA structure. It showed me how the two licorice pieces wrapped around the nitrogen bases and how the nitrogen bases had either A and T or G and C. This also helped remember that all the bases were paired up with another base.

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Expanding Universe

In this lab we put dot’s on a balloon and blew up the balloon and saw how the dot’s got further and further apart. The balloon represented the expanding universe and the dot’s represent the different galaxies moving away from each other. This happened because of the Big Bang explosion. During the lab the letter that moved furthest away was E. The one that moved the least was A. The more the balloon expands the more the galaxies expand. This relates to what is happening to our universe by, when the Big Bang happened the universe started expanding. When we blew up the balloon the galaxies started moving further apart. This does not relate to the ig bang explosion because the galexies would not be moving perfecttly away from each other, they would be moving in different directions.

BC Power Story

Hydroelectric generation

The hydroelecric dam uses water to create electricity. It all starts in a water reservoir behind the dam . This is where they keep the potential energy. The water starts flowing down the penstock. (The penstock is like a gate that controls water flow.) When the water is flowing down the penstock it is converted to kinetic energy. At the end of the penstock the water hit’s a bunch of blades attached around a shaft. This causes the turbine to rotate. When the turbine rotates it converts kinetic energy into mechanical energy. So when the shaft turns it is powering the generator and the generator converts the mechanical energy to electrical energy. So the water starts as potential energy then it is converted to kinetic energy, then the kinetic energy is converted to mechanical energy. Finally the mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy.

Once this is all done the electrical energy has to get to our houses. Unfortunatly the generator produces energy with very low voltage. So the step- up transformer increases the voltage. This is needed so the transmission lines can carry more elecrticity faster. The transsmission lines are where the electricity goes next. They carry the elecricity to cities. Once they reaach the cities, they go to a terminal station, which reduces the voltage to subtransmission voltage. Subtransmission line carry electricity large industrial customers. The voltage is still to high though to enter a house so transformers reduce the voltage even more. Then it flows through a meter that calculates how much electricity you use in a month. Now you can use the electricity!

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Pros of a hydroelectric dam:

  • Not bad for nature because it uses water
  • Reuseable you don’t waste anything
  • Safe you won’t get electricuted

Cons of a hydroelectric dam:

  • There are a lot of steps to making useable in a home
  • Could hurt the fish if they some how swim into it
  • Expensive
  • If there is a drought it uses a lot of water and it might run out of water

Thermal generation

In a thermal generation, water starts in a boiler. It boils and goes up a tube to the turbines. The steam pushes against the fan blades, which causes them to turn. It also turns the steam into kinetic energy. It then goes into the turbines which turns it into mechanical energy. The turbines cause the generator to turn on. The generator turns the mechanical energy into electrical energy. From there it does the same thing as the hyrdoelecrial dam. It goes into the Step- up transformer which increases the voltage. After that it goes into the pylons. Then it goes into the terminal station which changes it to subtrasmission voltage. The voltage goes into the subtransmission lines, then to the trasformer, and last the meters.

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Pros of thermal generation:

  • Reuses water
  • Thermal generation uses fossil fuels and it is easy to find
  • Fossil fuels are cheap

Cons of thermal generation:

  • Not that good for the environment
  • Pollutes a lot

Transition

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Full cycle:

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Websites used:

http://energyinformative.org/hydroelectric-energy-pros-and-cons/

https://www.bchydro.com/energy-in-bc/our_system/generation/electric_generation.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/physics/energy_matters/generation_of_electricity/r

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/pros-and-cons-of-thermal-power-13991.htmlevision/1/

 

 

 

Science App Review

App: Amazing science facts

This app gives you new scientific facts and trivia everyday.

 

How does this app relate to science?

-This app can give you facts about any science topic you want.

How does this app help you?

-If you need facts about any science topic you can just type in the key word/ words and it will give you tons of facts.

 

What is the purpose of this app?

-The purpose of this app is to give you new facts every day about any topic you want.

 

Does this app acctually help with science?

– It depends on what you need it to do. If you need just facts about something then it is good, if you want to research something then it might not be so helpful.

 

Could this app help with another subject?

-It could help. It gives facts about anything.

 

When would be a good time to use this app?

-If you need quick and easy facts about anything it would be a good thing to use. It would not be a good thing to use for a research paper though.

 

What age range would this app be helpful to?

-This app would be helpful for all ages. Some of the facts might be a little hard to read if you are really little, but other then that it would be useful for everyone.

 

 

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