Biology
FCCS - Mr. LaRose
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Below is an excellent website to learn more about biology!
Hour of Code
Outdoor School
Do you know the first 10 elements of the periodic table?
Constitution Day link
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/?page=foundingFatherShort.cfm
Science starts with OBSERVING, then making INFERENCES based on your observations.
Video on the Scientific Method
This is Francesco Redi, who disproved the idea of spontaneous generation!
Link below:
Here it is .................. THE CELL SONG !!!!!
Know your plant cell organelles!
Memorize the photosynthesis equation!
Memorize the respiration equation!
What scientist had a microscope like this?
Answer: Robert Hooke
Cell Cycle Video
How many U.S. states do you know? Click the link below and take the quiz!
Genus and species names? (Scientific names)
The DNA Song!
An article on Gregor Mendel.
From National Institute of Health, Office of NIH History and Nirenberg History, Bethesda, MD
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel is usually considered to be the founder of modern genetics. Though farmers had known for centuries that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity.
An Augustinian monk living in what is now the Czech Republic, Mendel had access to an experimental garden in which he could breed “true” lines of pea plants and patiently wait for them to crossbreed in specified combinations. He worked with seven characteristics of pea plants: plant height, pod shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color. Using the example of seed color, his results showed that when a yellow pea and a green pea were bred together their offspring plant was always yellow. However, in the next generation of plants, the green peas reappeared at a ratio of 1:3.
To explain this phenomenon, Mendel coined the terms “recessive” and “dominant” in reference to certain traits. (In the preceding example, green peas are recessive and yellow peas are dominant.) He published his work in 1866, demonstrating the actions of invisible “factors”—what we now call genes —in providing for visible traits in predictable ways.
Mendel never enjoyed recognition in his lifetime. In fact, it was more than three decades later, in 1900, that three scientists doing agricultural research discovered his 1866 paper. Erich Tschermak, Hugo de Vries, and Carl Correns independently verified several of Mendel's experimental findings, and the "age of genetics" was born. In the next several decades, scientists would learn more about genes and the special substance called DNA that carried each living thing's specific traits.
Gregor Mendel
Good information on the bald eagle, check out the link below!
Micobial Fuel Cells - energy for the future?
PROTIST video
SARCODINES are protozoans that capture food with pseudopods, such as the amoeba below.
Amoeba meets a stentor!
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