Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Poisonous Dart Frog



A brightly colored frog that lives in the Central or South America, is something you don't want to get near. Yes they are bright colored for a reason, it serves a warning to other predators .Their are many types of dart frogs here is an example of one. The little 2 inch long creature is one of the most poisonous animals on earth. This tiny thing has enough venom to kill 10 adults or 20,000 mice. Only 2 micrograms of this lethal toxin is able to kill human or any large mammal. They call it a dart frog because it sickens anyone who touches or eats it. Their skin releases a toxic that can easy kill. This frog was not discovered till 1968, Jack Cover and a Aquarium team traveled to South America to learn more about this frog, and they decided to breed them. His goal it to keep these from being extinct.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Cystic Fibrosis

This is a disease that has effected the United States, about 30,000 people have it (70,000 worlwide). About 1,000 are diagnosed each year. It is a disease that is inherited and does damage to the lungs and digestive system. When someone has it, it depends on the person if it can be healed. Patients that have it develop it at an early age. When they have this disease, mucus is bult up in the air way, which makes it simple for bacteria to grow and this causes infections. This causes the person to cough up spit and sometimes blood. Dealing with this disease, you create long term damage to your lungs. Another thing that is affected when u have Cystic Fibrosis is your pancreas, it's hard for it to produce enough enzymes to breakdown protein. Once this happens, it causes major bowl problems. One treatment for this disease is medications. These medicines (antibotics) help to prevent lung infections, thins out the mucus to keep the lung functioning. Another treatment is therapy, the patient needs to physically help their personal symptoms. Parents that have a child that has this disease can help in many ways. They increase the fluid the child takes to thin out the mucus in the air way. Also by giving them oral enzymes or nutritions to strengthen their digestion. Excersice also plays a big part because then when they are being active their airway is opening up. So thats what Cystic Fibrosis disease is and a few ways or tricks to cure it.

Enzymes

 In the first experiment yeast was our main substance, and added it two many other elements. Four cups full of 3 milliliterof water and 3 milliliters of peroxide. Each cup had a different amount of drops of yeast, 20 drops, 30 drops, 40 drops, and then 50 drops. After that we got a computer that was hooked ta a pressure cork that was placed in the test tubes to record the pressure data. This was called the concentration lab and this was our results:


The second lab we had 3 mililiters of water and peroxide in all the cups. Also 30 drops of yeast in all the four test tubes. The only thing different was the temperture of the test tube, one was room temp, cold, hot, and then warm. Thats why its called the temperature lab. . . Here was our results:
The last lab dealed with different pH levels, all three test tubes had 30 milliliters of water and 30 drops to them. The first tube had pink level 4 pH, the second had blue level 10 pH, the third had yellow level 7 PH. This was our results to the Ph level lab:



Conclusion:  If there are stronger Enzyme concentrations, then the enzyme activity increases. When its cold the activity becomes lower, but when temperture increases the activity becomes higher. Also higher ph levels cause higher activity in the enzymes, and lower levels cause lower activity.