DNA Structure

We learned about DNA structures the genetic material inside all cells. The real name for DNA is deoxyribonucleicacid. It is mainly just bunches of little patterns coming as one called nucleotides. Three things that are in nucleotides are, nucleic acid, ribose sugar and phosphate group. With all the nucleotides joined together it makes a long ladder made up of sugar molecules and carbonhydrates groups. The ladder is made up of nitrogen bases. When making joining together they have certain partners that connect. For example, adenine is always paired up with thymine and guanine is always paired up with cytosine. Throught out the whole ladder weak hydrogen bonds keep the pairs held together. The DNA could form a double helix which is a scientific name for the structure of the DNA twisting. When DNA is has the process of making a copy of itself that is called semi-conservative replication.

Gattaca

1. In the movie, Jerome was like "invalid" because he was a person that was weak and disabled by an injury from stepping in front of a car. After this he became degenerate because of this incident he lost physical, mental or moral qualities.

2. I think the parents let Vincent tear out the family photo after he won the race just because he proved to them that his heart wouldn't stop him from his dream and he could do it.

3. The relationship between Vincent and Anton was like any normal family. Vincent had all the brains and Anton was more of an athletic muscle man. Their were very different types of people and their interests were very different as well. It was kind of like opposites attract because even though they were different they were brothers and they bonded. Like when they were making the street planets Vincent was good at that, and then when their were in the pool, Anton was better at that.

4. My favorite person was Vincent in the beginning just because his determination for the ships and sky was awesome. Like he physically wasn't able to do that job but it was his dream and he didn't let that stop him. Then after killing someone I was kind of like whoa lets not get too crazy. Then I fell in love with the real Jerome because in the beginning he was sad about it but he was their for Vincent and helped him so much. He was such a good guy about it and had his back the whole time.

6. I didn't see the end of the movie but i couldn't believe the doctor kept quiet the whole time. He probably didn't say anything because Vincent didn't mean for all this to happen, he was a little boy with a big dream and would do anything for it. He couldn't do his dream because of his condition and society. I think the doctor saw this as him being an innocent man. If I was the doctor I think it would be hard for me to rat on him just because I would feel the same way as well.

8. The world in Gattaca is actually smart but its sad to see that people don't see you as a person but they see you as a DNA or a body. Applying for a job they don't notice you, they notice your body agenda. And this is wrong because people like Vincent don't get a chance when really he could be able to do it because even though his body was off he was so smart in the space field and could help in so many ways.

11. I would love to be the character as Vincent because he was so determined and it fascinates me. However Vincent felt as if killing the head chief man was the only way to get what he wanted and that could be true but I would never go that far or I would find a different way.

DNA Extraction from Wheat Germ

Put 50 ml of raw wheat germs in a test tube and mixed it with 20 ml of hot water. Stirred that for 3 minutes in a constant motion, then added 1 ml of detergent and mixed every minute for 5 minutes. In the process we tried to avoid making foam and we succeeded. Slowly we added 14 ml of alcohol and this caused a reaction. The test tube began to separate into 3 sections and this ghost like flawy white stuff appeared. How did this happen you may ask. . . Well the detergent broke apart the lipid's outer layer and caused its DNA to pop out. After the little white gooey thing came out we noticed it began to separate and separate. This is very similar to our bodies, how the DNA keeps duplicating and getting bigger.