Fruit Fly Lab Alycia Fletcher Biology IB HL March 25th 2010 Fruit Fly Lab Introduction Genes can either be sex-linked or autosomal. If a gene appears mostly in one sex chances are the gene is sex-linked and if it appears frequently in both sexes it is most likely autosomal. Using Drosophila melanogaster‚ also known as the fruit fly‚ we will determine whether the gene is sex-linked or autosomal. Drosophila melanogasters have a relatively short life span and are an excellent organism
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7 July 2013 Brain regions where ideas become contagious identified by Will Parker How do ideas spread? Why do some videos go viral? UCLA scientists have taken a first step toward answering these questions by identifying the brain regions associated with the successful spread of ideas. The research‚ reported in the journal Psychological Science‚ has broad implications and could lead to more persuasive advertisements and better ways for teachers to communicate with students. The study suggests
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Isolation or Involvement in WWII: Debate As our nation’s sixteenth President once said‚ “Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation‚ whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion‚ and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose- and you allow to make war at pleasure”(Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 38). This quote from Abraham Lincoln exemplifies the time before the United States joined into World War 2. Many
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Healthcare for workers has been difficult to quite understand. It comes with many issues and solutions in which many are not talked about or understood. In Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies‚ Seth Holmes talks about the fieldworks and the injuries that happen to these workers. The main focus with cultural competency is the lack of training that one has in the health field training. He explores the structural factors that affect the migrant healthcare and how the health professions perceive these migrant patients
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Lab Report: Flowers‚ Fruits‚ and Seeds Part 1: Flowers Directions: Answer the questions below using the picture of the Gladiolus‚ or Lily flower‚ below. 1. How many petals does this flower have? 6 2. How many stamens does this flower have? 5 3. How many stigmas does this flower have? 1 4. Is this the flower of a monocot or a dicot? Monocot 5. Explain your answer for question #4. This flower has petals multiple of 3. The petals also seem to have parallel veins. 6. Is this flower perfect
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Block 1 January 24‚ 2011 Introduction & Background Fruit flies have made a huge contribution towards knowledge about genetics‚ but for most people‚ they are just annoying insects that are attracted to their fruit. Their scientific name is Drosophila melanogaster‚ and to scientists‚ they have been a key to understand many principles of heredity including sex linked inheritance‚ epistasis‚ multiple alleles‚ and gene mapping. Fruit flies were the first organisms to be used for genetic analysis
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will swarm from face to face and won’t get out of it until you hit and kill them‚ or until they find somewhere else to go. Gnats do this because many of them are attracted to body heat. (What Attracts Gnats?) For example‚ soccer games ending late in the evening‚ and sweat pouring from everybody gnats tend to swarm up around most of the people out on the field. Gnats and fruit flies are very similar. The only difference between the two‚ is that gnats form big groups outdoors‚ while fruit flies are
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Text typology – Genesis The main function of the text is expressive. The text is an extract from the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. The author is a writer‚ journalist and poet‚ whose breadth of experience comes across in this text. The field of discourse is the narrative genre of the novel. The mode of discourse is “written to express views and feelings in an artistic way”‚ which Katarina Reiss refers to as “creative composition” where the sender is at the forefront
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For my thematic thread‚ I chose to answer the question of how isolation impacts the individual. The topic first peaked my interest primarily because I initially wanted to know how one’s subjective views and the ideas presented by their culture merged to help establish new perspectives. However‚ I soon realized that isolation is the best circumstance to evaluate such a thought‚ for it is a state where the mind is most vulnerable to exploring both new and preexisting concepts‚ thus making one more
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How would you handle the isolation of living in a small attic for two years? In the book The Diary of Anne Frank‚ by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett‚ Anne Frank had to hide in a small attic above her dad’s office from early July 1942‚ to August 4‚ 1944. Anne hid with her parents‚ sister‚ Peter‚ Peter’s parents‚ and Dussel. Through going into hiding‚ Anne responds to the isolation she faces with anger‚ sadness‚ and surprisingly hope. Anne did not have hope since the beginning but gained it along
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