Embryonic

My opinion has stayed the same ever since I first read about stem cells months ago.  Stem cells have still proven useful in technological advances in medicine.  Without research of stem cells, especially embryonic, people would never be able to find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.  Embryonic cells are better than adult stem cells because they are at the stage where the cell hasn't decided which branch of cell it wants to go into.  This is helpful for people with deficiencies such as low blood sugar.  People could have embryonic stem cells implanted in them so the stem cells could become cells that carry insulin.  Diabetes would no longer exist if we use stem cells.  This and many more cures and uses could be found if we researched more in depth about the use of stem cells.  So my opinion hasn't changed at all ever since the first article.

Homeostasis

In the morning when I wake up, I'm always cold when I get crawl out of my bed sheets.  I'm shivering when I get out of bed because my body is adjusting to the climate of the room.  Also, I always have to go to the bathroom right when I get up.  I don't wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom so my bladder is full.  The organ system involved with me having to go to the bathroom when I get up is the excretory system. They haven't been used in over 7 hours so when I'm awake I feel the effect.  The feedback loops I'm experiencing would be negative feedback loops because my body is adjusting to maintain homeostasis.  I wouldn't go through positive feedback because my body doesn't permanently change to acclimate to my surroundings.  A positive feedback is a quick change so to say, while negative feedback is like meters constantly adjusting to maintain the body.  To make sure my body doesn't go through too extreme changes, it goes through negative feedback.  Through negative feedback, the body adjusts slowly over time instead of instantly.  Such a drastic, rapid change could potentially have dangerous effects.

Rappin'

I think this assignment helped me to better understand the concept of photosynthesis.  From doing this song, I kept reviewing over and over again what the steps and processes of while writing this song.  From doing the song, I know the process of the Light cycle and Calvin cycle better.  The advantage of doing this project is we learn from doing something fun, instead of just doing a boring assignment where we choose not to learn.  Boring assignments tend to have students just doing the assignment, instead of actually learning from it too.  The drawback from this assignment is that certain students hate singing, so they won't enjoy doing this.  It was really hard to make this project work because finding words and combining it in a song was hard.  Some students might have hated this project because they are not creative.  I think doing a lab wouldn't help me.  Doing a lab would most likely confuse me even more about the processes of the Light cycle and Calvin cycle.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving I am thankful for many things:

1.I am thankful that I am alive and healthy
2.I am thankful that my grandma is still living with me right now,she has liver cancer and is currently on hospice.I thank God that she has lasted 3 months after the doctors in the hospital thought she would "die" on August 18.
3.I am thankful that my parents love and care for me.
4.I am thankful that my family is not financially hurt unlike some unfortunate people who have almost nothing right now.
5.I am thankful that I have made friends at Gunderson,originally I dreaded the first day of high school because I would know I would be a loner by not knowing anyone.All of my friends went to either Branham or Leigh so I wanted to go there too.
6.I am thankful for all of the staff at Gunderson,they are pretty cool people.Kind of funny too,half of my teachers remind me of teachers I had at my school last year!XD

Science Fair Project

Science fair projects do actually help "teach" science by having us conduct experiments in which we learn the processes of something new.  When we do science fair projects, we learn from them by doing them.  Certain projects, you learn while you're doing your experiment.  Sometimes, science fair projects don't really "teach" you anything.  If you're doing an experiment where you already know the results, you won't learn anything from doing it.  Learning only applies to science fair projects when you are doing something completely new that you have no idea what the results would be.  Doing something that you already know isn't really conducting an experiment where the outcome is unpredictable to you.

Stem Cell Research

Stem cells are a good thing, they can help people in many different ways. For that woman that needed a new trachea, her own stem cells helped her own body by accepting the new organ. If she had not used her own stem cells, the organ would have been rejected by her body and she would not live a normal life. Also, stem cells can lead to new discoveries for curing diseases. People should keep studying stem cells to find out the other uses for them.