Leech Lab!!

More Mitosis.

When we did the fun experiment of getting different colored balls with at least 5-10 balls and a partner. One being the mom and the other being the dad!!  This is going to show you how the chromosomes interact with each other. Well you get two different colors with the same amount of balls. Then you mix them together to see hoe parents can pass chromosomes to their daughter(s) or son(s).  Everyone in the class had different kinds of patterns and it looked really cool :) Well anyways, I found some pictures on the Internet of a chromosome being passed on the to a daughter/son from a parent.  Each phase is included as chromosomes are separated and inherited.
    I can't get my Picture to load :(

Skeleton Labeling Contest!

I had a lot of fun with this contest, and studied one part of the skull- anterior view! This was a little bit of a challenge, more than I expected it to be. But I did it :) I was extremely nervous when trying to label this skull (my sticky notes were not sticking!) But oh well...

Medical Terms

Some of my Medical Terms that I know about :) Check it out

Posterior, Anterior, Superior, Inferior, Medial, Lateral
https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1KW8pAYvOZyeaTPefczoo1tokinxUEshUVhytaTTsC6w&w=1684&h=700

Intermediate, Proximal, Distal, Superficial, Deep
https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1FUFsTKf6rJ8r4Z3piaXXT0ROkVETwo1fPUNJwQX6G_s&w=1590&h=652

Bone Structure Quiz... uhhhh

Since I don't do good on test/quiz/etc... and after taking the bone structure quiz, it didn't show much that I learned anything.  I am starting to get the idea of what kind of different fractures do what and what they mean.  So I put some pictures up with the meaning underneath them to show what I know.  Some fractures are caused by sports injury, old age, common.. just because.  Bones can fracture doing anything not just a hard fall, or playing rough or anything like that.. it can just happen.  So BE CAREFUL!!!

Broken Bones

Spiral Fracture- most common in sports injury

Compound Fracture- A fracture in which the bone is crushed; common in the vertebral column

Greenstick Fracture- A break common in children; bone splinters, but break is incomplete

Comminuted Fracture- Often seen in the brittle bones of the elderly

Simple Fracture- Also called a closed fracture

Depressed Fracture- A common type of skull fracture

Open Reduction- Surgical realignment of broken bone ends

Closed Reduction- Nonsurgical realignment of broken bone ends and splinting of bone

Nondisplaced Fracture- Bone ends retaining their normal position

Linear Fracture- Epiphysis separates from diaphysis along epiphyseal line;

occurs where cartilage cells are dying

Compression Fracture- A fracture in which the bone is crushed; common in the vertebral column

Levels of Structural Organization

Chemicals

Cells

 

Tissue

 

Organ

Organ System

Organism