Wish

If you could have one Christmas wish what would it be?

cycles

Why do we have to worry about natures cycle being polluted?

Unit

What is one thing that you have learned from this unit/

Learn

What is something that you have learned about ecology and your environment?

Change

What kind of results do you want to get out of your 3 R's project? Do you think that it will change the way people live or not?

Project

Why do you think that your 3 R's project is the best project of all??

3 R's

What are the three R's to the planets environmental solutions???

Lab

What did you learn from today's lab?

Lab

What did you learn from today's lab?

Lab

What did you learn from lab today?

Cars

What are the cars of the future go to bring to the table that our current cars don't offer?

Make a Difference

What is some way that you are able to do help make a difference in our planet?

11th hour

What is something that you got out of the movie the 11th hour?

Save

What are some ways that science and techonology are helping to save our environment?

Carbon Footprint

What is your carbon footprint? What can you do to make it smaller?

Soil

What are some problems with soil erosion that may occur in an environment?

E.I

What have you learned from your environmental issue? The topic you will be presenting on Monday.

Water Pollution

What are some causes to water pollution and what are some things that can be done to prevent water pollution?

Our Air

What are some of the causes of air pollultion?

Warming

What is global warming? What does it mean to you?

Fossil Fuels

What do humans use fossil fuels for?? Why is the importance of fossil fuels for our society?

Humans and the Environment

How do humans affect the environment???

Activity

What did you learn from the activity today??

Today

What did you learn from the presentations in class today?

Carrying Capacity

What do you think will cause the human species to reach its carrying capacity? Explain your answer.

Herbivory

What is Herbivory? Give an example.

Keystone species

What does it mean to be a keystone species??? Explain your answer.

Symbiotic

What are the different types of sybiotic relationships?

Niche

What is a niche and give an example of a niche?

WHAT

What is coevolution? Give an example.

C.C

What is carrying capacity?

Question

What is an Ecosystem?

Cycles

How do the water cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and the phosporus cycle work together in an environment?

Consumers vs Producers

Explain the difference between a consumer and a producer. Which one do you think is more important?

Phosphorus Cycle

What is the Phosphorus Cycle? How does it work?

Grasslands

What is something that you enjoyed about the movie yesterday?

Carbon Cycle

What are the steps for the Carbon Cycle? Why is it important for the ecosystem?

Nitrogen Cycle

Explain the Nitrogen Cycle?

Water Cycle

What are the steps of the water cycle and why is it important?

Oceans Deep

What is something that you learned from the movie oceans deep? Or what is somehting that you thought was really cool?

Succession

What is succession? Give me an example of succession from the movies that we have watched in class.

Energy Pyramid

What is an Energy Pyramid? How does it relate to the food web?

Web

What is a food web? Tell me why it is important.

Mountains

What did you learn about the mountains today? This would be from the movie that you watched in class.

Yesterday

What did you think of the movie yesterday? What is one thing that you have learned from this movie so far?

Diff

What is the difference between and community and a population?

Climate

Why are there so many different climates in the world and why is climate important to the different biomes?

Biological Communities

What are the major Biological Communities found in the world?

What is this?

What is succession and how does it relate to an ecosystem?

Ecosystem

What is an ecosystem? Why is it important?

Green

Save the planet one person at a time. What does it mean to you to live "Green"?

Energy

What is Activation Energy? What does our bodies use it for?

Lab

What did you get out of lab today? What was the objective of the lab? Is this a lab that we should do again?

Conservation

Why is the conservation of mass and conservation of energy important to biology? Hint look on page 64.

Chapter 3

What is something that you have learned about the topics in section 3 of chapter 3?

Carbo

What do carbohydrates due for the body? Are they good are bad?

NA

What are nucleic acids? Why are they important to the body?

Lipids

Waht are lipids? Why are they important?

Water

What are some of the properties that make water so important?

CB

What are the different types of chemical bonds?

Reading

What is something that you learned by reading chapter 3?

chapter 3

Why does chemistry have to do with biology? Explained in the next chapter.

Understanding

Why is it important to understand what is going on in the environment around us?

Jobs

What are some jobs that relate to the field of biotechnology?

Presentations

What are two things that you have learned from watching the presentations in class yesterday and today?

Change

What do your jars look like now? How have they changed? Why did the jars change so much?

B>T

What have you learned about your bio. technology topic?

Test Tubes

In your test tubes yesterday was there bacterial growth or not? Why did you have bacteria in your test tubes? Do you think that boiling them is going to change the amount of bacteria in them?

Turtles

What did you think of the turtles eating the fish on Firday? Is fish a natural food for them to eat or was it something that we just gave them?

Your Stuff

What kinds of cool stuff did you get to put into you jars yesterday? Why is your jar going to be so much better then everyone else?

Jars

What are some of the cool things that you are going to put into you jars? Why?

Environmental Club

Do you think that an environmental club would be something that would work in Warner? What would be something that they could do?

Easy Blog

Lets do an easy blog today. What was something that you did over your first three day weekend?

Advaces

Why is it important to advanced technology and medicial advances?

Ecosystems

Why is it important to study the ecosystems of other species? What benefits can it have?

Scientific Method

What are the steps to the scienctific method? Why would you use it?

Ecology

Why is the environment such a hot topic right now? Why are we going to spent so much time learning about this topic?

Welcome Back

Well I hope that everyone had a great summer. I know that I did. Why don't we start they year off easy. Tell me something that you did this summmer.

Summer is Here

Hey since this is the last blog of this school year. Why don't you tell me one thing that you are going to do this summer?

Vernon Martin Ingram

Who is Vernon Martin Ingram?

9-12.L.2.2.

Describe how genetic recombination, mutations, and natural selection lead to adaptations, evoution, extinction, or the emergence of new species.

Jars

What did you find in your jars yesterday? Explain.

Norman Ralph Davidson

Who is Norman Ralph Davidson?

Today

What did you learn today about the other kingdoms that where presented in class today?

Kingdoms

What is something that you have learned about your groups kingdom?

Dichotomous Key

What is a dichotomous key? What is it used for and why is it important?

Kingdoms

Out of the six different kingdoms why do you think that they are classified the way they are? Why do you think there are six kingdoms should there be less or more?

Classification

What is classification (ch 17)? What are the different kingdoms and how do they differ from one another?

Evolution

After everything that we have learned about evolution has your view on evolution changed or not. Explain.

Your Thoughts

What is your thoughts on Darwin's findings that we talked about yesterday? Do you think that Darwin's theory still holds in today's world?

Selections

What are the differences between stabilizing, directional, and disruptive selection? Also can you give me an example of these types of selections using animals in this area.

The Book

What did you learn from read the chapter of Darwin's Book? Was it hard to understand or not?

Darwin's Boat Ride

What did Darwin discover on his little ship ride through a group of islands?

The First Cell

How did the first true cell arise? And how did the first eukaryotic cell evolve?

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day! :) What are three things that you can do in our home to help save the Earth and to would help your parents save money?

11th Hour

How do you feel about the movie the 11th hour? What did you learn, do you agree with the message, and did it change your view of how you live?

First Life

What was the first form of life on this planet? Who does science believe it was created?

Who are these guys?

Who are Oparin, Miller, and Urey? What did they do and how has it helped to change the way we view the creation of life on Earth? Do you believe that their theory is correct or not?

Redi and Pasteur

Who do you think the replication of Redi and Pasteur's experience will work within our class or not? Why do you think that your project is going to work over someone else's idea?

Spontaneous Generation

What is spontaneous generation? How was this finally disproved and who helped to disprove this concept?

Evolution

Has evolutition really been proved? What is your opinion?

Evolution

When you hear the word evolution what do you think about? How do you feel about evolution and do you believe it or not?

Earth Day

What do you feel that our school can do to help out the community of Warner on Earth Day? Do you feel that this one day of difference can help create change for the rest of the year?

The History of Fossils

Why is it so important to have a good fossil record? Why do we need to learn about the past? And can your past really determine our future?

Guys in History

Tell me about three guys that helped to disprove crazy beliefs that people used to hold, like life came from dead materials. What did they do, who are they, and how did their ideas change the beliefs of society?

Life on Earth

How long was life been on Earth? What evidence does science have to prove this theory?

Mendel vs. Darwin

What is something that Mendel and Darwin had in common? What are these two men known for doing in science?

DNA

Tell me everything that you can think of the relates to DNA and how does one of those topics help to change our society and technology.

Human Genome Project

What is the human genome project? How has it changed the way that we look at genetic diseases/disorders, gene therapy, and forensics science?

Right or Wrong

Do you believe that we will have more hybrids in the next 20 years or do you think that science is going to leave nature alone? Also is it ethical correct to create hybrids?

Hybrids

What is your groups Hybrid? What is at least two things that you have learned about the hybrid?

Change Good or Bad

Do you think that hybrids will effect the evolutionary process of a species? Why or Why Not!

Your Change

Do you think that your type of technology is going to be able to be used in the future to make medical advances. Please explain what you think this advancement may be.

DNA Technology

What is your topic and what is something that you have learned through your research?

PCR

What is PCR and what is it used for in science and industry?

Cloning

What is cloning? What was the first large animal that was successful cloned? What was it name? Why was it a girl?

DNA

Why is recombinant DNA used in agriculture and how is it being used?

Transgenic Organisms

How is a transgenic organisms produced? Give an example of one organism that was produced.

Dogs

How were people able to develop the different breeds of dogs and why do some dogs have more problems then others? Give an example.

Selective Breeding

What is selective breeding? How has it been used and give an example of selective breeding that you are familiar with.

Recombinant What DNA???

What is Recombinant DNA and why is used in genetic engineering? Given an example with your answer.

Breeding

What is selective breeding? Why is that something that we use in society today?

What is your body type

What is your blood type and how does that relate to your parents blood type?

Codominant alleles

Explain what a codominant allele is and give me an example of something that is displaying this effect.

Genetic engineering

What is genetic engineering and how do we use it within an industry?

Wow Science

How was it, what happened, and what was the best part?

Project

You should have in the back of your minds what WOW science project you want to do and know that this is tonight from 5:00 - 6:45. But what project do you hope to do and why? And I put you on YouTube.

Reactions

What type of reaction occur ed yesterday when you mixed sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and acetic acid (vinegar)? In you own words describe what it looked like when the reaction occurred.

Your Project

Pick one project that we did yesterday and tell me what scientific method this will teach the kids that do this project.

Wow Science

Why do you think the project that you found yesterday is the best? Do you think anyone elses would be cool?

Your Genes

After learning about all of these different types of genetic disorders do you feel like people are going to start using genetic counselors more and more. Is it ethically and morally correct to determine which children are born based on their DNA code?

Eye Color

By reading what is in your text book how is eye color determined and what is your eye color and how does it relate to your parents eye color?

Did you know

Did you know that I do read the blogs and when you have typed the same words as someone else I don't believe that you typed it and I give credit to the first person and not to you. This is not a blog. I just wanted you to know I wanted your words not somebody else. Some of you might want to blog again. Thanks Ms. Hix

Blood Types

What is the importance of blood typing and how do we pass those genes onto your offspring?

What is this?

What is incomplete dominance?

XY or Regular

What is the difference between a sex linked genetic disorder and a autosomal linked genetic disorder?

The Royal Family

What is the connection with Queen Victoria and hemophilia?

Preview time

Yesterday everyone got to pick their own genetic disease. Tell me something that you found on that disease that you didn't know about.

What is your disease?

Why don't you tell me a little bit about your disease that you picked?

CF

What is cystic fibrosis and in what type of people is it common in?

carrier

What is a carrier and do you know if you are one?

Heredity

Why is knowing your heredity important?

Pedigree

What is a pedigree?

Genetic Counselors

What does a Genetic Counselor actually do for people? Is this a job that is going to last or pass?

Repairing DNA

What are some of the ways that we are able to repair DNA?

STM

What is Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)?

Genes

How are we able to tell one person genes from someone body elses genes?

Pairing

They do the nitrogen bases pair up like they do? What is the reason behind it?

Amino Acids

What do amino acids to for the body and how do they work?

Which is better?

Between a point mutation and a frameshift mutation which one would be less harmful?

Mutations

What can cause the mutations in a DNA sequence?

Md. Scientists Build Bacterial Chromosome

By Rick WeissWashington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 25, 2008; Page A04

Scientists in Maryland yesterday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce.

Venter said the goal is to design novel microbes whose handcrafted genomes endow them with the ability produce useful chemicals, including renewable synthetic fuels that could substitute for oil.

Critics, however, countered that without better oversight of the fledgling field, synthetic biology is more likely to lead to the creation of potent biological weapons and runaway microbes that could wreak environmental havoc.

Venter and others have already made synthetic genomes for viruses, which are about one-hundredth the size of bacterial genomes. Some activists contend that synthetic bacteria pose more dangers because, unlike viruses, they can replicate on their own and can survive a long time in the environment.
Venter said the work was green-lighted by government offices, the National Academies and an independent ethics review board.

What do you think about science being able to create life from nothing within a lab? Is it right or is it wrong?

DNA Extraction

Today we are going to do a DNA extraction lab, but yesterday you where able to do a virtual lab which walked you through the steps. So, what are the steps for DNA extraction?

The Genetic Code

What is the genetic code and how are we able to read it?

PCR???????

What is PCR?

DNA Replication

What is DNA Replication? Why does this process occur?

DNA Structure

DNA has a specific structure. Who came up with it and when?

DNA

What is DNA, is it important, what do we do with it, and we should I learn about it.

Polyploidy

What is polyploidy and why is it so unusual in animals?

What is this?

What is genetic recombination? What does is do for a species and is it good or bad?

Lab Yesterday

What are two things that you learned from lab yesterday? Did you like the lab or not?

Nondisjunction

Nondisjunction is when homologous chromosomes fail to separate properly during meiosis. What are some of the side affects of this occurring. Is there a way to detect this problem?

Mendel

Why is Mendel's work with pea plants so important to people now, over 200 years later?

Meiosis

What are the steps of Meiosis and why is Meiosis so important to living organism?