Heredity Web Quest

1. Scientists were trying to complete sequence of the 3 billion DNA subunits (bases), identify all human genes, and make them accessible for further biological study. When scientist learn more about our body the more they can do to help cure our sicknesses and diseases.

2. When cops try to figure out who or what committed the crime the first they do is search the crime scene for evidence. The most helpful piece of evidence is usually DNA, because they could test the DNA and figure out right away who or what did it

3. I read an article about Prince William and his baldness. Apparently the balding trait has been passed down his family from his grandfather to his father and now his father to him. But they also mention that Prince Williams younger brother Prince Harry has a full head of fluffy hair. Why? I thought but then i remember dominant and recessive alleles. The balding trait must have been dominant in Prince William but recessive in Prince Harry.

4. The people in charge of the Epigenome of Human Project are the Human Epigenome Consortium. The HEC aim to identify, catalogue and interpret genome-wide DNA methylation patterns of all human genes in all major tissues. Doing this will help control the correct expression of genes.

Osmosis

     Osmosis is the movement of water from a high water concentrated place through a semi-permeable membrane to a place of lower concentration of water. Semi-permeable membranes, like the cell membrane, are very thin layers of material which prevents some things to go through while allowing some things to go through. It will allow water molecules to pass through because they are small enough to fit. Molecules such as sucrose, starch, and protein are too big to go through the membrane.

     If there is more solute in a solution, then the lower concentration of water in that solution. The water will then move to that low concentration of water leaving the solute outside the membrane. Then the water will try to bring the solute with it creating, osmotic pressure, because the solute is too big to fit through the membrane. It is also because molecules on both sides are bumping into the membrane. The water molecules will continue to move right-left resulting in left-right. But something could stop that if the bigger molecule were to block a pore in the membrane.

The Six Kingdoms

 There are six kingdoms. The six kingdoms are Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista. Some of the Kingdoms have a complex cell structure and others a simple cell structure. The kingdoms that have a complex cell structure are called eukaryotes. The eukaryotic kingdoms are Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista. The ones that have a simple cell structures are the the prokaryotes. The prokaryotic kingdoms are Archaebacteria and the Eubacteria.

   The species involved with cell reproduction in some kingdoms can be both asexually and sexually.  Those kingdoms are Plantae, Fungi, and Protista. Animalia is sexually and Archaebacteria and Eubacteria are asexually. A fun fact about Archaebacteria is that they like to live in salty environments like Utah's Great Salt Lake.