Does quizlet actually work with teaching students how to learn about their class? This and more questions have been asked, and they're good questions. So let's answer some of them, quizlet does work for some people because they actually look at  the quizlet and study it. But some kids don't look and they end up failing the class. Other student are perfectly fine without the quizlet, and they just remember it well, or they study their homework or other work the did in class. 

Quizlet is a website that is for kids I think, and it helps them with defining words or vocabulary in their class. Like if they wanted to find the definition of the word cow. Then quizlet would allow them to write their own definition or they can use the auto define that quizlet provides. I think that it's much faster to use the auto define but if they really wanted to know then they would look in their text book and find the definition their selves and put their own definition in. So that's quizlet and how they help people in their need.

Peppered moths were once always a light color so they blended in with their surroundings. Then one day the forest was poluted and the peppered moths changed colors. They went from a light color to a dark, almost black color. Scientists have been trying to find out why they changed the color all of a sudden. SO a scientist had a bunch of dark moths and a bunch of light moths. He released some of thee dark and light ones in the light non polluted forest then He let some dark ones and some light ones into the dark polluted forest.

His results were that in the dark forest more dark  moths survived than light moths. This is because birds would most likely find and go after the easy to see moths than the well camouflaged moths. He had the same result in the light forest, he started to think that pollution was the reason the moths changed color. They must have evolved to fit with their environment, to survive. Before the pollution black peppered moths were very rare to find in the light forest, so the pollution had to be the problem. It didn't stop and more moths were getting darker. The light moths lived closer to the country side, and the dark moths lived closer to the cities where there is pollution and they will blend. Once in a while you will see a dark moth in a light forest or a light moth in a dark forest. You have to think positive about the situation, if there was no pollution then the world wouldn't have a rare black peppered moth. Even though there is pollution maybe a new breed will appear and amaze the world like the dark peppered moths did.

Our homework was to go on google and find out how to make the genetic jewelry. I think in a previous blog, I wrote about how to make it, but I guess I'll do it again. So the first step is to get a piece of wire and different colored beads. If you want it accurate then you will need red, green, blue, yellow, gold, and white. Get as many because I forgot how many you need. First put the white in on one side and white on the other. Then you put yellow on the one side and yellow on the other. Then you put blue and gold on one side and red and green on one side. 

Once you do this, you have to take one wire and put it through the other side but not through the yellow. Then you keep on doing that, but with opposite colors from the other side and then you finally stop. Then you put it through all the yellows on the side and you create a hook or kind of loop to hang on your ear or a tree.

Limited resources would definitely create competition between animals because they need resources to survive. Let's say that the population is growing between a species and they don't have as much resources, this could lead to fighting over food water or land. Then there would be accidents and the population would go down. This works for the humans as well, if there are more people being born than there are dying then the population would grow and then we would be under attack with each other. There would be fights and deaths, and then the population would go down as well. 

All these things happen when the resources are being limited or the population of a species is growing to fast. Then there would over all conflict. The most important one is limited resources, if we keep on taking away the habitats or food water of animals then they will go extinct or will be on the endangered species list. Also if the government keeps on hiring prices for products then people will go homeless and then they would die of starvation or dehydration. Then America will become under conflict and maybe the world would become under conflict. Anyway these are some factors that would lead to competition.

One day in science class we had to make a family out of paper, it was known as the paper pet family. It was supposed to be our pet with a family. It was a blob with its phenotype and its genotype. You have to flip a coin to see what kind of teeth or eye shape, color you would get. Then you had to pair up with someone who has the opposite gender of your pet nd make kids. The kids were the hardest because every pair had to have six kids, and we didn't know what color they would be.

After we wrote down their genotype, and we finished flipping coins, we had to work on their phenotype. The phenotype was the easiest because all we had to do was make the gender sign on top of their head and make the shape of their eyes or teeth. But I was going so fast that I accidentally drew the wrong phenotype for the kids and I had to redo them. Well I wasn't told to but I caught my mistake and fixed it on my own. It was fun because we had to cut them out and then we had to name them. Then when we finished we had to get a white piece of paper and Tape them on the paper. In the end they all ended up to be all blue because I had BB which was dominant for blue.

A punnet square is a big square with four smaller squares in it. The point of a punnet square is to tell what kind of trait the offspring will get, and the trait the offspring gets is based on dominant. Say that there is a dominant trait for dark hair and a recessive trait for light hair. If the dad has homozygous dominant DD for dark hair and the mom is homozygous recessive for light hair. Then the child will have dark hair because no matter what kind of trait the dominant is paired up with, the dominant trait will always show.

But let's say that they are both Dd then the child will be either DD Dd r dd. Then what if one is dd and Dd the child will either be Dd or dd. I've done some punnet squares in my life as well, in fact yesterday we had a test on punnet squares, dominants and traits. I'm pretty sure that I passed the test with at least a B or higher if I didn't then I will be really disappointed with myself. But any way the reason for punnet squares is to determine the trait of an offspring based on dominants. In case you were wondering what kind of vocabulary I used in here and what they mean then here they are. Homozygous means that it is the s

I think the most struggling part about science was when we studied mitosis. I couldn't really remember the stages and what happened during the stages. I always remembered the prophase stage because it was the first part of mitosis. Plus I always remembered the cytokinesis stage because it was the last stage of mitosis. But then I started to look at the flash cards we made and I tried to remember what the stages did and what it looked like. 

Then I started to catch get better and I sort of got better at remembering the stages and what happened during the stages. Then I practiced learning which came first and how did it go like that. Then eventually I got okay at it. Then came the tests, and I did a good job, I wouldn't say the best job, but still good. But I still have a little trouble remembering which because It's been a long time since we've learned and done activities or talked about mitosis. So that's how I dealt with my remembering problem with mitosis, and how it was hard for me.

For our homework, our teacher said for us to read a blog called the Physics of Santa Clause. It's about how he can't be real. It said like he would have to travel 3000 times faster than light. Then he would have like 1/10000th of a second to get a present, climb down the chimney, put the present under the tree, and finally eat the snacks and get into his sleigh again. Then it said that there were a lot of children that made snacks, and he would gain like 255 pounds a night. 

Then comes the reindeer, they would have to be really strong to pull a huge sleigh full with millions of presents. There would have to be like 27 of them to carry the sleigh not even including 255 pound obese Santa Clause. Then they would evaporate in the atmosphere because they would have to be going really fast, and the would be going down to land. Then what a bout the children that are in different continents, we're just talking about America here. So he'd have to mail the gifts a head of time to do this job. Plus there are only about one good kid in one household. So if there was a Santa Clause and he did put gifts under trees for the children; he's dead now. 

This author is trying to say that it would be impossible for one man to ado all of this work in only like a couple of hours each night. He would need like a team, of people or have parachuted gifts floating down to the houses. So basically Santa Clause doesn't exist, and it would be impossible for him to do his job, and if he did, he'd be dead. The author has a lot facts and a lot of research that proves that there can't be a Santa Clause.

During interphase the DNA splits down the middle. The old DNA splits and then the new DNA strands join up with the old strands. Then when they join together the cell pulls and pulls until it pulls apart from the old cell. Well actually when the cell splits it doesn't exists anymore because the cell split into two, so the cell divided equally. 

The DNA is like a twisted ladder or also called a double helix. It is like this. the bases are like the handle bars, and the outside is made up of phosphate and sugar. The bases are made up of adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. Adenine is always paired up with thymine, and cytosine is always paired up with guanine.

The structure of DNA is almost like a ladder. But this ladder is twisted and is called a double helix. The double helix is made up of guanine, cytisine, thymine, phosphate, and some sugar. But there is quite a bit more, but I can't remember it right now. There are bases witch are made up of the cytisine,etc. Then you have the legs that are like holding them together, these are made of the phosphate and the sugar. 

But there is more to DNA, the DNA is the reason why you are you. It holds the instructions to make you, and it has traits from your family members and especially your parents. It also is over six feet, and it's all cramped up inside of your cells which are all cramped up inside of you. There are more then a trillion cells with trillions of DNA inside of them.