Wednesday, December 29, 2010

CELLS- Pretty much everything is made out of cells! A cell is a        
                 microscopic structure that is the basic structural unit of
                 organisms.
               - Cells come in all shapes. Depending from where they
                  are from, for example: red blood cells are round and look
                  like dounuts on the other hand plants cells from plants
                  are more square shaped.
              - Cells are like mini organisms themselves. This is because
                  they have things inside them called organelles.
                    1) cytoskeleton- A protein chain that criss- crosses the
                       whole cell serving a wide-range of functions.
                    2) nucleus- its the motherboard of the cell. It tells the
                        cell what to do and also stores the DNA.
                    3) endoplasmic reticulum(ER)- it produces protein
                        and lipids and sometimes has ribosomes attached.
                    4) ribosome- bean-shaped organelles that make proteins.
                    5) Golgi- apparatus- it packages products from the ER
                       and the ribosomes and sends them out of the cell.
                    6) vesicle- small membrane- bound sacs that divide
                        materials
                    7) mitochondrion- the power house of the cell, it
                        transforms sugar to ATP, which is a type of energy cells
                        need
                     8) vacuole- storage for the cell that contains any material that
                         the cell might need later on.
                     9) lysosomes- a organelle that contains enzymes to defend
                         the cell from bacteria and viruses.
                    10) centriole- assistance when the cell divides
                    11) cell wall- a wall that give plant cells protection, support, and
                          shape to the cell.
                    12) chloroplasts- to make photosynthesis happen.
DNA- DNA basically what makes you, YOU! Its inside every nucleus of 
                 your euarkaryotic cells.
            - Inside every DNA there is genetic and hereditary information
            - DNA has a very unique design to it, it looks like a twisted ladder
               and that's why it is called like that and it is also called a double
                helix.
            - The two backbones of the DNA structure are made from sugar 
                and phosphate molecules.
            - The bases in the middle and made out of nitrogen and there is
                four kinds of them.
             a) Adenine
                                        > Pyrimidines = Single Ring
                    b) Cytosine

               c) Thymine
                                        >Purines = Double Ring
               d) Guanine
            - These four nitrogen bases don't just bond with each other in 
                 random order, they only pair with a certain other base.
              a) Adenine pairs with Thymine and with no other 
                   b) Cytosine pairs with Guanine and with no other 
             - There are many important people that take part with the history
                 of DNA.
           - First there is Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase. What they did 
                 is confirm that DNA was genetic material.
            - Second, there is Rosalind Franklin. What she discovered how
                 DNA looked when she took a x-ray picture of it.
            - The final two were Francis Crick and James Watson. What they
                did was build the first model of DNA out of metal and wood.