Comic strip

This particular comic strip uses creative techniques to portray energy transfer throughout an ecosystem. For example, the sunflower is using the energy from the sun to make sugar in its photosynthesis process. Additionally, the primary consumer that eats the plant, in this case the deer, will absorb only ten percent of the total energy from the plant. Finally, the man who hunts the deer in the third picture will absorb ten percent of energy from the deer.

Sexual selection in Peacocks

Before

After

I decided to model sexual selection as a evolutionary process for my model.  I modeled the process by drawing the peacock before and after the evolutionary process took place. Before the evolutionary effect, the peacock had white feathers and after the process it had vibrant green and blue feathers. The white feathers were too bright for the peacocks and white peacocks were easily spotted by predators, therefore, many males would chose the colorful peacock over the white because they were more appealing. This made sexual selection a selective process as opposed to random since the males had to chose which female they would want to mate with.

Human Impact Group Prezi

Here's what we created:

Ecology 6- Human Impact: A Collaborative Student Project (2011-2012 version) on Prezi

Building a Melanoma Vaccine

Researches have recently trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within. They use genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a cousin of the rabies virus. The strategy used is called cancer immunotherapy. It uses a genetically engineered version of the virus to deliver a lot of genes derived from melanoma cancer cells directly into tumors. In the mice studies 60 percent of tumor-burdened mice were cured in less than three months! Building caner vaccines from tumor DNA is beneficial because tumors can adapt to the repeated attacks of a healthy immune system and display fewer antigens. While cancers can learn to hide from a normal immune system, it appears unable to escape an immune system trained by the DNA. I found this interesting because if scientists continue to work with this hopefully they can improve it and come up with a sure cure for melanoma cancer. This would help thousands of people, especially now a days since the sun is getting stronger.

Controlling Mice

Scientist from the Scripps Research Institute have performed an experiment on mice where they have inputted harnessed neurons in the mice brains. They were initially  looking to find "How does the activity of the the brain represent the world" but neurologist Mark Mayford led a brand new study to use this experiment to "understand what goes wrong in situations where you have inappropriate perceptions. They started off by inserting two genes that manipulate memories in the mice which they tied to a natural gene that turns on and off in specific memories. 


I found this particular article interesting because just the brain itself is a very interesting topic to research. In addition, the way it works and everything just blows my mind. Its quite astonishing how the brain controls every aspect of your body and all the tiny components. Another reason I found this article interesting was because how it talked about memory and the active and inactive genes. 

The menstrual cycle graph

Fast Plant Genetics Presentation By: Masruba, Nirvana, Navneet, Farah

Our Prezi!

Genetics Lab on Prezi

KSV² Fast Plant Genetics Presentation

Here is our lab presentation!

Fast Plant Lab Presentation on Prezi