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=Boricua Science Class Student Work Space=

Student Name:
Gladys Delgado

End of Term Reflection
Here are some of the activities we did in class this term: Harper's Magazine ("Boots on the Ice"), Hurricane Evacuation Plan, Designer Babies (GATACA), Genetic Diseases, Evolution Movies/Research, NYT Science Reviews, Punnett Squares, Chemical Bond Diagrams, The Periodic Table, The Birth and Death of Stars

[insert text here] Computer Class = [More/Less] Videos = [More/Less] Student Group Activities = practice in group is very important because we can learn from others Evaluations = [More/Less] [insert text here]l learn many science learning activities but the most important for mi was the atoms doing the chemical bond diagrams,naming the chemical compound and the alpha decay and beta decay, you made the class easy and very interesting. I had have the opportunity to tech my son thank you so much for share you knowledge with us. I,m very glad with all I learned.
 * What 2-3 activities did you enjoy/learn the most?
 * Alpha decay and beta decay, chemical bond diagrams
 * What 2-3 activities topic did you find the most difficult to understand?
 * Describe how could we improve this course in the future
 * Explain why you enjoyed, or why you struggled through, this class, offering whatever insights you may feel are valuable:

Name of Disease
ankylosing spondylitis

Symptoms

 * 1) HLA B-27 increase the risk to develop ankylosing spondilitis
 * 2) HLA B- 27 cause inflamation of the intestinal walls
 * 3) HLA B 53 help the inmune system respond effectively to the parasit that cause malari

Genes

 * 1) Major histocompatibility complex class B. Symbol HLA-B
 * 2) [Type here]
 * 3) [Type here]

Cytogenetic Location
6p 21.3

Base Pair Sites
31,429,627 - 31,432,913

Community
Staten Island

Evacuation Center

 * 1) PS 80 located in Petride 715 Ocean Terrace. Staten Island NY 10301, between Witteman Place and Milford Drive phone 718 8150186
 * 2) They store some food cans and water they have the basement for few people and no more then tree days

Your Evacuation Plan
In a emergency case we decide go by car, we have to make sure that we have full gas tank before to go, listen information about road and bridges closures, select what we take with us, make sure that the go bag has documents and copies of documents that are most important, insurance car and home, some pictures, birth certificate, extra key for car and home, money, food as a granola seeds, flashing lights batteries, radio with batteries, medicine, copies of prescription, name of the doctor, blanket, water, contact the place to meet the family, a map to arrive to the center of evacuation. For now we don't have a pet If we have one I took my [pet to my sister house, if decide to leave the pet in home we have to make sure that all doors and windows are close, food and water for three days and put one size at the door to alert rescue workers. To meet the family make sure that they know the phone numbers, coins or prepaid cards for use the public phone to call tha emergency contact, practice going to the center of evacuation, communicate with family during the crisis, make sure if we store adecuate food, enough water and all basics supplies. If we are in Brooklyn everybody meet in my sister house.

#1 THE WARNING OF GREENLAND

 * 1) Summary – In September2005 an explorer from California Mr.Schmith in one of his ocean voyage discovered the island Greenland. an sterile strips of rocks between two glaciers, 400 miles North of the Arctic Circle. Despite this remote location the island was mapped and named, maps of the region show a mountainous peninsula covered with glaciers. Now the maps showed only ice and a strip of water running between a shoreline, the water was littered with many icebergs, a paring every time with a thunderous crack and a earth shaking that fracture the ice of the shelf.
 * 2) All over Greenland and the Arctic rising temperature are not simple melting ice they are changing the geographic of coastlines, many glaciers that surrounding islands were gone in only two years leaving small island alone in the open ocean. The sudden appearance of the island is a symptom of an ice sheet going to remove, scientist said that Greenland is covered by 360,000 cubic miles of ice enough water to rise global sea levels by 23 feet and create a catastrophic.

2. Book citation- The temperature in earth surface is determine by the extent to which gases in the atmosphere increase absolve outgoing inflatedradiation, this natural temperature increase associated with atmospheric trapping of heat is the called "Green House Effects" Today Green House Effects refers to possible increases of temperature as a consequence of three gases methane, water and carbon bi oxide. Another cause is the assent sunlight, is trapped by plants and buried in the Earth over millions of years and covered in to coal natural gas and petroleum, sunlight hit the earth as the land and oceans warms more heat bounces back in to the atmosphere.


 * 1) Personal Interest – The increase of temperature is going the worse consequences no only is melting the sheet ice creating a catastrophe on earth, also may include changing in agricultural yields, species extinctions. Other expected effects include water
 * 2) scarcity in some regions and increasing precipitation in others and an adverse heath effects from warner temperature.
 * 3) One of the purposes of our life on earth is to find harmony with our self and with our environment, how we can destroy, what we want to come in harmony whit? is my question. We all have to evolve ecologically and be awareness to reduce carbon emissions using alternative energy souses, if the carbon gets smallest the life gets greener.

#2 OLD VIRUSES RESURRECTED THROUGH DNA

 * 1) Summary –Thanks to advances in DNA technology Scientist can now reconstruct now copies in old virus.
 * 2) Scientist no only reconstructed the virus that caused the influence epidemics in 1918. Now scientist from French has rebuilt a virus that infected our apelike ancestors log time ago. They didn't separate the virus from the fossil to examined vestiges of the virus that survive today inside the human genome.
 * 3) Our genome is filled retrovirus or HERVs, many of then have counterparts in the genomes of other species. They infected
 * 4) our ancestors and passed from generation to generation. Scientist built a corresponding piece of DNA and insert it in to human cells, some of the cells produce new HERVs that could infect other cells, this reconstruction of virus scientist call the reconstructive virus
 * 5) Poemix.
 * 6) Book Citation – DNA is the heritage material in human and all mortal other organism. Nearly every cell in a person body has the
 * 7) same DNA, most DNA is located in the cells nucleos and in a small amount of DNA can be found in the mitochondria. DNA replication is possible because t5he geometry of the base pairs always come in the pars Adenine (A) goes only to Thynime (T)
 * 8) and Citoscine (C) goes only to Guanine (G). All this characteristics made possible to the scientist reconstructed virus through
 * 9) DNA.
 * 10) Personal Interest – There are many advances in DNA reconstructed new copies of old virus, Because DNA carries all our genetic information, DNA also made possible information that runs the chemistry inside each individual cell.
 * 11) The procedure is ingenious the technology is growing every second new research is going to do using Poemix to
 * 12) study the role of HERVs in cancer. I'm waiting for the cure for cancer.
 * 1) The procedure is ingenious the technology is growing every second new research is going to do using Poemix to
 * 2) study the role of HERVs in cancer. I'm waiting for the cure for cancer.



#3 EQUALITY BETWEEN THE SEXES; NEANDERTHAL WOMEN JOINED MEN IN THE HUNT

 * 1) Summary – Dr. Kuhn and Dr. Stiner discus that Neanderthal women and children s took part in the dangerous hunt, probably as beaters and blockers of exits routs. Their argument begins with the human hunter gathered societies have a division of labor between
 * 2) the sexes.
 * 3) Neanderthal women no only prepared plants for food and take care of her children they also was hunter. Evidence founded prove this participation in hunt skeletons are so robustly shows they join men in the hunt. the division of labor between the sexes was likely to appear in a tropical environment obviously it may have provided the demographic impetus for modern humans to expand out of Africa.
 * 4) Book Citation – The evolution of our own species Homo Sapient provides a good illustration of the kind of precess that occurred in other spices. Finding fossils of the oldest hominid is always obsession for paleontologist, fossils show too many tipe of human being to appear in different places long time ago.
 * 5) Neanderthal fossil reveal that are identical to the modern human beings. They tender to be short, with thick powerful arms and legs
 * 6) and large skull pulled forward, they had a complex social structure and practice of religion and language.
 * 7) Personal Interest – Many types of evidence support the fact of evolution, fossil demonstrates hat life began simple and increased in complex over time. This article is interesting for me because bring information about women the Neanderthal as a hunter in the environment no only men are the responsible of the evolution too women are part of this evolution, there is good evidence of different
 * 8) occupations from small animals and birds fossils as well as the bone awls needs used to make clothes. It's seems reasonable to understand that this activities were divided between men and women.

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