DNA to Disease
Evidence of Work:
For this project we were assigned a disease and we had to do research on that disease to find out how a protein becomes diseased. The first step was to chose our disease. Our group chose Parkinson's disease. The next step is to do the research. Below is our document we used to research our disease.
Our next step was to create a final product. Our group wanted to create a podcast so we first wrote a script. Below is the initial script we made.
We then recorded ourselves reading the script and we then edited the video to be more like a real podcast. Below is the final video that our group made.
Concepts:
Transcription: When DNA is copied into mRNA. This happens in the nucleus. We described this concept in our project.
Translation: The mRNA decodes into a polypeptide chain. This occurs in the ribosomes. This was also described in our project.
DNA: Nucleic acid to contains the sugar deoxyribose.
RNA: Single stranded nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose.
mRNA: Messenger RNA, RNA that carries the information for the assembly of amino acids.
Amino Acid: Compound with an amino group. This can become diseased after a mutation occurs.
Codon: A sequence of RNA that codes for a single amino acid.
Anticodon: Complementary sequence to the codon. Group of three bases.
RIbosome: Small particle in the cell where proteins are assembled. The location of translation.
Genetic Expression: How the gene is expressed and how the info is used.
Protein Folding: The process that turns the polypeptide chain into a protein. It happens in four steps that make the protein. This important for our project since a diseased protein can cause a disease like Parkinson's disease.
Reflection:
This project went very well. I was able to understand the concept a lot better when we did a fun creative project like this one. If I had done a simple slideshow, I believe that it would have been a lot more bland and I wouldn't have understood the concepts as well. I feel like I contributed to the team very well in this project. I even made sure to put in time over the break to make sure that the project was completed and was our best work. I also feel like I collaborated very well. I feel like the whole group did. We all got along, had fun, and made a good project. Something I could improve upon however is time management because while we all got along, this led to us wasting some time which also led to us needing time over the break to finish our project. One other thing I could work on in the future is looking ahead when doing a project. Our group created a poster for the first day but then abandoned the idea which caused us to waste some time since we were scattered in ideas. Overall however, I think the project went very well.