Current event:Mystery of the Ark!

In ancient times, their was said to be an ark. Not just any ark, but Noah's Ark. This carried a male and female of almost every species in that part of the world. Thousands of years later, a spy plane took photos of an object lodged in the side of Mount Ararat in Turkey. In 2003, satellite photos of the object that sparked more interest. This story is very private, because they are trying to save the ark. A couple of months after, climbers in Iran found what they thought to be the remains of the ark. Scientists are saying that the water carried the ark up to the spot it is located, if that is even the correct ark. I feel that this is amazing that they are able to recover any artifact that is that old, especially that it is Noah's Ark.


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Current Event:Deep Sea Discovery!

On the CNN website, their is an article on a deep sea dicovery. With globel warming, over 3900 square miles of ice melted over the Wendell Sea. This exposed new species that includes six pointed sea stars, fan-finned ice fish, and hundreds of sea cucumbers, as was reported on sunday, the 25th. Gauthier Chapelle of the Polar Foundation in Brussels says that it is all because of global warming. I find this good and bad. I think it is good that we have found more species, but bad that that was a effect of globel warming. The ice caps were 5000 years old and began crumbling in the past dozen years. Chapelle also says that new discoveries are expected to happen, because of the emense global warming. The scientists dicovered fifteen new types of shrimp. All of the animals will be anyzlyzed to find out if they truely a new species, says the article.

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Extra Credit!

Genetics relates to the book we are reading in literature. We are reading To Kill a Mockingbird. In chapter 15, Haper Lee said the Jem(Jeremy Finch), resembled his father, Atticus Finch. Here are the exact words: "Jem's soft brown hair and eyes, his oval face, and snug fitting ears were our mothers, contrasting to Atticus's graying black hair, squarecut features, but they were alike somehow." All of these traits were passed down through heredity. One that stuck out to me in specific was "were our mothers". This told me that Jem resembled their mom more than there dad, most likely because she had the dominant traits.

Class Response!

We have been learning about genetics in class. Today, we did an activity where we made DNA strands using candy. These strands were double helix's. The gumdrops represented the specific chemicals. The twizzlers represented the structure of the DNA strand. Something I learned was that a double helix is two polynucleotide that are wrapped around each other to form the structure. Another things I learned was that the structures are antiparallel. I beleive that this is an interesting way to study the structure of the DNA strand. It clearlty interest the students, hense how I am using this as a blog response.



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