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=Boricua Science Class Student Work Space=

Student Name:
[Merva Boatswain}

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

[i enjoy learning about the different trait and how we get our genes. i t was fun trying to figure out what family member gets what from what parent. [ecosystem, and perio table ] Computer Class = [more time working with with activities on the computer would be more beneficial ] Videos = [i enjoy the video they were helpful Student Group Activities = i found that when we work as a group we tend to grasp the activity quickly ] Evaluations = more evaluation ] [although i struggle some time i really enjoyed the class i know i asked a lot of questions, but i did not just want this to be just another class i want what ever i learned i would retain. in found out some intersing facts about Global warming, before i never really think about how it effected about planet.
 * What 2-3 activities did you enjoy/learn the most?
 * 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
[Filamin A. Alpha cactinbinding protein]

Symptoms

 * 1) [Flna usually as facial features that are include downward slant eyes, very low jaw and chin, small; missing or milaligid teeth ]
 * 2) [FLNA present in the joint and will contract your joint and restrict movement or certain joints.
 * 3) FLNA can be described as an abnormal of skeleton development and other health problem.]

Genes

 * 1) [FLNA

Cytogenetic Location
[XQ28]

Base Pair Sites
[153,230,158 to 153,256,122]

Community
[Buswick ]

Evacuation Center

 * 1) Location – [IS 138]
 * 2) Implemented Plan – [weather the storm at home

Your Evacuatio
I looked up my address on the evacuation zone map and discover that I live in a no zone what that means is that in the event of an hurricane I should prepare to weather the storm at home. My nearest evacuation site would be IS 138. I spoke to a Sonia Rivera who informed me that although I live in that zone I would not evacuate to their site, because my building is also a new evacuation site as well, since 2007. I asked if their have an evacuation plan, the answer was, yes. However since I would not evacuate to IS 138, but weather the storm at home these were the instruction I was given: I was told that I will experience high wind and heavy rain falls, including flooding. If I lived above the 10 floor I should prepare to evacuate to a lower floor. Since I live on the 4th floor, I won’t need to leave my apartment. However I should make sure the window are tapes and secured. I should prepare to shelter the storm and stay in door maybe for several days, and keep plenty of food supply and an emergency supply kit. In my supply kit I would need a battery operated radio, flash light, extra batteries, first aid items, scissors, regular telephone that is not cordless. I should make sure I have plenty of can food items. My family is a ware of this plan and in the event that we are separated and not everyone is home when the storm begins. We are expected, to weather the storm at the closest evacuation zone and make our way back home after the storm is over to ensure that everyone is safe. Each member of the family should try and contact the other person so we know where we all are.



#1
The articles in this New York time was about Scientist name Ms. Bosessenkool and her colleagues who start out a study on yellow-eyed Penguin and discover another species while do their study. They were looking at living birds and using museum species that data back hundreds of years for their research data. There focus was birds that came from parts of New Zealand” south Island. This was one place where yellow-eyes Penguin does not exist. The article stated that the Scientist was shocked to by the genetic data that another species because it was unusually for that to happen while studying a particular animal. The study discover another older species that were living they called these new species Megadyptes Waitaha. They discover that Megadyptes Waitaha were able to out compete the yellow-eyed penguin, relegating them to a smaller islands to the south, but then the Polynesians arrived and within 200 years had wiped out many big animals including the Megadyptes Waitaha. Therefore after the Megadyptes Waitaha were gone it is believe that yellow-eyed penguin were able to take over. These articles connect to our study on Ecosystem and the environment chapter 19 in our science book. Where we learned about adaptation of animal and how they survive due to how they can compete. At one point we did a experiments with seeds and beaks with a group of student and we compare and record how each bird with different beak adapt to the environment. He ones who could not feed with the competitor had to relocated to another island to survive. A passage in the Science book noted that over a period of years, they watched the islands undergo the process of repopulation as new animals migrated from mainlands or from different island. This article discuss a research from a scientist and her colleagues and what I learned was that when scientist are doing researches they may also encounter or discover new data and information that they did not start out looking for but in the end make an important discoverers. It was interesting to learn about this yellow-eyed penguin that they were researching because I never knew they ever existed. It was interest to learn how another species came I and the yellow-eyes penguin and to migrate to another island to survive, but what stood out more was when the Polynesians arrive and wipe out many big animals because they could not compete.
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#2
This article that I read about the fish Fossil described these fish that were found to have a features like a fish combine with limbs. The article noted that the study of these Fossil Fish lived about 375 million years ago and Scientist is connecting these with what some marine vertebrates evolved into animals that walked on land. The fish had more complex transition than fin evolving into sturdy limbs. The head and braincase were changing, a mobile neck was emerging and bone associated with underwater feeding and gill respiration; was diminishing in size, a beginning of the bone adaptation for an eventual role. The fish was or predator was up to nine feet long and was a predecessor of amphibian’s reptiles and dinosaurs, mammals and eventually humans, which is what the scientist felt. They nick name the fish “fishapod” because of its fish like feature combine with limbs. During the study the scientist believed that these fish fossil lived in shallow water of a warm climate. One of the most important finding that the scientist discover was that that they were amazed by the reduction in size of a bony element that in fish, links the braincase, palate and gills and is associated with underwater feeding and respirations. In these fossil species the bones was greatly reduced, no bigger than a human thumb. The article noted that these animals in shallow water setting were already beginning to rely less on gill respiration. The scientist conclude by saying that the new study reminds us that the gradual transition from aquatic to terrestrial lifestyle required much more than the evolution of limbs. Type here] This article can be compare to chapter 25 in our science book regarding Evolution, referring tolife emerge on the ancient Earth. In one paragraph it noted about Fossil record. The passages stated that the most dramatic and compelling evidence for life’s changes over geological time come for fossil, the tangible evidence of past life. The book stated that on e major problem with fossil records is that it much incomplete. The book noted that the term fossil record refers to all of the fossils that have been found. What I learned was even in 2008 scientist are still researching and comparing animals as emerging to humans. I also learned that although they continue their study it more a prediction and not really facts. In the article a scientist name Dr. Shubin noted that fish have no neck but they could see mobile neck developing for the first time in their study of this fossil Tikaalik. That I found very interesting. It was also interesting to notes some of the discovery that they noted especially that one where they stated that they believe that the fish that live in shallow water were beginning to learn how to rely less on their gills for respiration person. I found that this article was very educational and give you another look at how scientist continue to study animals. Type here]
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#3

 * 1) Summary – [the article in the New york times spoke about the surface of Mars and the bumpy place in the midlatitudes. the article states that scientist believes that the big bumps om the surface's of Mars contains water ice, but they could not determine what form or amount.. they believe that because of this pure ice form of glaciers, buried under these thin layer of soil that it could provide a convenient resource for human missions, and note that the finding do indicate that Mars has surfaces of hidden ice underground. they believer that these glaciers were formed millions of years ago when the planet spin axis was tilted more than is is today. they believe that over the years these debris buried themselves and allowed Ice to survive. with that result it is the cause of climate change that effect some of the heavy snow region. due to the tilted axis.
 * 2) Book Citation – [the article in the new york time coincide the study we did in our science book, regarding global warming and the effects of the green house effect that is currently occurring in our nation. the science book give us detail information about he melting of the ice fossil and the effect that scientist believe will occur because of the melting of ice. we study in our science
 * 3) Personal Interest – I learned from this article that although living Human does not live on Mars, Scientist feel that Mars does had Glaciers of ice which will effect the Plant just as Earth, what was interesting was that, it has never found that Human live on Mars yet it seems that Scientist believes that their melting ice will been a convievent resource for providing human mission if need. it shows that scientist will always continue to find new evidence to support their beleives and contiune their research of the mistery of these plnaets.

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