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=Boricua Science Class Student Work Space=

Student Name:
[Tamara Hernandez }

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

[Hurricane Evacuation Plan, Designer Babies, ] [The Periodic Table] Computer Class = [More] Videos = [More and watch the whole video] Student Group Activities = [More] Evaluations = [More] [I really enjoyed this class even though I know that I didn't do so well, I really enjoyed watching the video but I just wished we can watch it from beginning to end instead of pausing every second. I think I struggled through this class because I really need one on one attention sometimes when I dont understand something I need someone to break it down to me as if I'm a baby. ]
 * 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
[Dentinogenesis Imperfection]

Symptoms

 * 1) [Teeth become discolored blueish gray or yellow brown.]
 * 2) [Teeth become very weak.]
 * 3) [This problem can happen to baby teeth or permanant teeth. some times hearing loss. ]

Genes

 * 1) [DSPP]
 * 2) [Type here]
 * 3) [Type here]

Cytogenetic Location
[4Q21.3]

Base Pair Sites
[base pair 88,748,704 to base pair 88,757,048 ]

Community
[Type here]

Evacuation Center

 * 1) Location – [280 Frost Street apt 1D Brooklyn New York 11222
 * 2) Implemented Plan – [Zone C There is No evacuation order in effect for Zone C. Residents in Zone C may experience storm surge flooding from a Major category 3& 4 hurrican making landfall just sourth of New York City. A major hurrican is unlikely in New York City, but not impossible.
 * 3) There is No evacuation order in effect for Zone C. Closest evacuation zone is New comers high school in Queens by train. Take L train towards Manhattan get off on Lorimer then transfer for the G train towards Queens get off on 23 Ely and transfer to the 7 train towards Main street get off on Queens Boro Plaza and from there walk.
 * 4) There is No evacuation order in effect for Zone C. Closest evacuation zone is Newcomers hight school in Queens by bus. Thank G*d that the B24 is in front of my house, I would take the B24 to Roosevelt Ave/Queens Blvd then transfer to the Q104 bus then walk from there. ]

Your Evacuation Plan
[Emergency Supply Kit 1. One gallon of drinking water per person per day. 2. Ready to eat canned foods and manual can operner. 3. First aid kit 4. Flashlight 5. Battery operated AM/FM radio and extra batteries you can also buy wind up radios that do not require batteries 6. Whistle 7. personal hygiene items soap, feminine hygiene products, tooth brush and tooth paste. 8. Phone that does not rely on electricity. My to go bag will include 1. Copies of my important documents (insurance card, photo ID's proof or address) 2. Extra set of car and house keys. 3. Bottled water and non perishable food. 5. Flashlight 6. Battery operated AM/FM radio and extra batteries. 7. medication information. ]

#1
“When Hell Cooled Down” In beginning of time it was said that the Earth was unbearable to live on that it was hot, dry, desolate landscape, it was called Hell, a name given by the Greeks. Until 1986 Professor of geophysics at Stanford named Norman H. Sleep submitted a paper that calculated the probability of life surviving one of earth’s early impacts. Reviewers said that it was impossible for anything to have lived 700 million years on the planet Earth. As per Professor of Geochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles there is new evidence that suggest a new view on Earth. Geologists say that instead of the Earth being hot, dry, and desolate, there was land and ocean. Instead of planet Earth being hot it was most likely freezing. The sun wasn’t as strong as it is now so there are places on Earth that would have become ice. Dr. Sleep calculation are, that before the dinosaurs were killed off there was something greater that hit the Earth many years before that, about four objects 200 miles wide. Until now scientist cannot prove if there was life on Earth during the Hadean. It is said by Dr. Mojzsis that “Hadean” might not be a misleading name for the earliest of Earth’s history, after all. The Ancient Greek concept of hell was not one of fire and brimstone. “In Greek mythology, Hades was a dark, cold, mysterious place. ] “The Formation of Earth” page. 325 Then these larger planetesimals collided and coalesce into the beginnings of a planet. As the process of accumulation went on, the growing planet gradually swept up all the debris that stay near it orbit. If you had been standing on the surface of the newly forming planet Earth during this stage, you would have seen a spectacular display. A constant rain of debris left over from the initial period of planetary formation fell to the surface, steadily adding mass to the planet. During this period, called the great bombardment, the large amounts of kinetic energy carried by the shower of stones were converted into heat, which was added to the newly forming planet. ] I picked this article at first because I fell in love with the painting on how Earth must of looked life in it Hadean period, but then after reading on it became very interesting to me because I always though that there was only Dinosaurs on Earth and there was no life before them. After reading this article I learned that there was life on Earth before the Dinosaurs millions of years before them. ]
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#2
“Health Halo can hide the Calories” Many New Yorkers are really into looking good and staying healthy these days. There are a lot of new gyms opening up and everywhere you look and go there is always something reflecting on weight even on TV there is always a new pill or a new drink or just diet programs in general. Subways, the famous sandwich franchises are always promoting on how healthy their sandwiches are. Dr. Chandon’s says that Americans have been seduced into overeating by the so-called health halo associated with certain foods and restaurants. Their study began in Brooklyn ’s Park Slope area where their mission is to sell “organic, minimally processed and healthful foods.” Dr. Chandon’s a professor of marketing at the insead business school in Fontainebleau, France , and Alexander Chernev, a professor of marketing at North Western  University. They held a survey, which included 40 people, and in this survey they would show a picture of a meal consisting of an Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad and a 20-ounce cup of regular Pepsi. The meal contained 1,011 calories the meal actually contained 934 calories and 714 from the salad and 220 from the drink. The other half of the group was shown the same salad and drink plus two Fortt’s crackers prominently labeled “Trans Fat Free.” The crackers added 100 calories to the meal, bringing it to 1,034 calories, but their presence skewed people’s estimates in the opposite direction. The average estimate for the whole meal was only 835 calories 199 calories less than the actual calories count, and 176 calories less than the average estimate by the other group for the same meal without crackers. As Dr. Chandon predicted when the person saw that the crackers were tarns-fat-free they assumed that the crackers made the meal healthier and less in calories. The meal with the crackers ended up being the winner, but little did they know that the meal with the crackers added more calories then the meal with out the trans-fat free crackers. So is New Yorkers doing more harm then good for themselves? Every one is so obsessed with their looks that they believe every time they see a trans-fat free label that it is automatically good for them. Experiments showed that putting a “low fat” label on food caused everyone, especially over weight people, to underestimate its calories, to eat bigger helpings and to dulge in other foods. ] “Science by the Numbers.” P 64 The first law of thermodynamics has a great deal to sauy about the American obsession with weight and diet. Human beings take in energy with their food, energy we usually measure in calories. Here are a couple of rough rules you can use to calculate calories in your diet: Suppose you weigh 150 pounds. To keep your weight constant, you have to take in 150 pounds x 158 calories/pounds = 2250 calories per day If you wanted to lose one pound (3500 calories) a week (7 days), you would have to reduce your daily calorie intake by 3500 calories / 7 days = 500 calories per day. Another way of saying this is that you would have to reduce your calories intake to 1750 calories the equivalent of skipping dessert every day. Alternatively, the first laws say you can increase your energy use through exercise. Roughly speaking to burn off 500 calories you would have to run 5 miles, bike 15 miles, or swim for an hour. ] “Vitamins and Cancer risk in women” American Medical Association, assigned women older than 40 to receive a daily combination of folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 and compared them with a matched group of 2,721 who took a placebo. The vitamin doses were more than six times the recommended daily allowances. The group (192) that took the placebo developed invasive cancer. Compared with (187) in the vitamin group. There were no differences in rates of breast or colorectal cancer, and no difference in rates of death from cancer or any other cause. Vitamin B is required more with age, but vitamin B and folate are very important for pregnant women. ] Page 499 Cancer occurs when this fundamental guardianship fails. In cancer, the cell cycle continues unchecked, often despite profound damage to the DNA and to the chromosomes. And by accumulate in the cell. The result is a terribly damaged cell that just keeps duplicating itself over and over again, making more copies of the defective cell. I picked this article because I am a woman who takes vitamins every day; I try to eat vegetables and a least a fruit every day because I do not eat meat, I have to eat a lot of greens and proteins as in peanuts, almonds that sort of protein.
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 * 1) Under most circumstances, normal body maintenance uses up about 15 calories per day for each pound of body weight.
 * 2) You must consume about 3500 calories to gain a pound of fat.
 * 1) Personal Interest – [This Article interest me because I’m always trying to keep fit, I eat a lot of yogurt try to drink a lot of water and sometimes I skip meals just for me to try and keep a healthy looking figure. I used to jog every night for an hour but with school and work and it getting colder I’ve stopped which after reading this article I think I’m about to go back to jogging.  #3
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