Anatomy Blogs due Sunday 1/29 by 5:00
Using your notes from project presentations in class, provide at least 3 important facts from 5 different topics.
Using your notes from project presentations in class, provide at least 3 important facts from 5 different topics.
1. What is the function of the medulla?
2. What is the function of the cerebellum?
3. What is the function of the olfactory bulb
4. What is the function of the optic chiasm?
5. What is the function of the corpus collosum?
Explain the steps of transcription and translation… Be exact…don’t leave out a step…
1. What is the purpose of DNA transcription?
2. What is the purpose of DNA Transcription?
3. What is the purpose of RNA polymerase?
4. What is made when RNA polymerase breaks off of DNA?
5. What happens to the DNA when polymerase breaks off?
Research five nervous system conditions that you would be interested in presenting on in class. Name them and give five important facts about each.
1. Explain the process of a nerve impulse.
2. Explain the reaction of the nervous system when you burn your finger on a hot pot.
3. What is a reflex arc?
4. Name some types of sensory receptors?
5. Give some examples of the autonomic reflexes.
1. What is a mutation?
2. Give an example of a type of mutation.
3. Are mutations genetic…give an example?
4. Explain the process of transcription.
5. Explain the process of translation.
1. Explain the process of transcription in DNA.
2. What enyme attaches nucleotides to the origninal strand of DNA?
3. What enzyme comes along and unzips the DNA strand in the process of replication?
4. Name the main differences of DNA and RNA?
5. Explain the process of m-RNA in the process of making proteins.
1. Why is DNA important to you?
2. Why is it important that you protect yourself from radiation from the sun?
3. Use the base-pairing rules to determine the base sequence that is complementary to the sequence C-G-A-T-T-T-A.
4. A plant’s DNA has nucleotides that are 20 percent thymine. What percentage of guanine would be present?
5. How did [...]
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