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Summary:
DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the basic blueprint for life. It has 4 bases- adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. Adenine connects with Thymine and Cytosine connects with Guanine. These 4 bases make up most of a strand of DNA. In a strand of DNA, there are also genes. Genes determine the traits and appearance of a living organism such as the hair/eye color, skin, etc. DNA is created from both of your parents. As much as DNA is important, there are abnormalities that can happen when a baby is born. One example of this is called Tay Sachs disease. Tay Sachs happens when a single letter in a DNA strand is missing from both parents when given to a baby. This causes fat to build up in the brain and eventually destroy the host's brain. DNA is essential to life due to the fact that it stores all the instructions for your body and tells each cell what to do.
SP6 - Constructing Explanations:
I constructed an explanation of how my superhero would blend in with the environment. Since I based my superhero (name is Invisiblend) off of a chameleon, I explained how chameleons blend in with their environment and change color. I found out that chameleons have cells called iridophores that reflect light in a particular way when excited or relaxed to influence the color of it. With this information, I implemented this into my human superhero by also adding iridophores beneath their skin and making their skin color a lot more transparent. Now that I had found a way for my superhero to blend in with the environment that they are in, I added that to my concept sheet in the structure and function section to show how my superhero would blend and change color.
XCC - Patterns:
A pattern that I identified this week was DNA. DNA is shaped like a continuous spiraling ladder. The rungs of the DNA also stay consistent. Each rung is either A and T connected to each other and C and G connected to each other. With this pattern in mind and with the current technology that can read DNA strands, we could possibly solve the genetic disorders such as Tay Sachs Disease by identifying it when a baby is immediately born by taking a strand of DNA from the baby and then seeing if a letter in that strand of DNA is missing or has an abnormality. If the disorder is found in the DNA, then action can immediately be taken to help stop it.
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