Monday, October 5, 2009

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009


"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes – the telomeres – and in an enzyme that forms them – telomerase.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Long Test 1 Results

CONGRATULATIONS!

Rachelle Lim - 47
Vince Garcia - 46
Joker Asis - 45
Michelle Co - 45
Gaby Santos - 45
Cara Evangelista - 44
Andrea Alegre - 43
Benjo Rodriguez - 42
Theresa Tobillo - 40


AVERAGE SCORE: 36.60
NUMBER WITH LEAST CORRECT HITS: #1, only twice answered correctly

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

Head over to the University of Utah LEARN website - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/ for definitions and exercises from DNA to proteins

Use the Wikipedia entry for the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology for simple term definition and explanations

Mendelian Genetics

Mistakes in Meiosis


Sunday, July 12, 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

Meiosis Assignment

Please read the chapter on meiosis and refer to the slides for meiosis I. Compare meiosis I+II with mitosis by viewing this animation.

Here is another activity on meiosis. I suggest you visit the link and read through all the tabs and answer the self-quiz.

Another activity can be found here.

ASSIGNMENT:
Please answer the SELF-QUIZ located at the Chapter Review for Meiosis. Write your answers down on a sheet of pad paper, to be submitted Tuesday at the start of our period.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Mitotic Cells Questions

Part I
1. Why were plants root tip cells used for viewing cell division?
2. If you were to observe cell division of animals, what specific type of animal cells would you use? Wxplain your reasons.
3. How would cell division in plant cells differ from that of animal cells? Use a Venn diagram organize you response.
4. At what stage of mitosis is it easiest to determine the kind and number of chromosomes? Explain your reasons.
5. What evidence did you observe that shows mitosis is a continuous process, not a series of separate events?
6. What specific process in mitosis ensures that the normal number of chromosomes is restored after each cell division? Explain your response.

Conclude
1. The number of animal cells in each phase of mitosis is recorded in the table below. If the time taken to complete on cycle of mitosis was 1h, create a cell-division clock to represent the data.
2. Do your observations on onion root tip cells indicate that there were more cells in some phases than in others? Identify the most common phase/s and explain what these differences in numbers might mean.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Meiosis

Friday, June 12, 2009

Hunyo 12

A Bright New Day

Happy Independence Day!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Cell cycle animation

Hello World.

First post. Hopefully not the last.

Congratulations you lucky section.

Welcome to Biology 3 SY09-10 by K. Kawashima.