Botana Curus

   Botana Curus is valuable plant because it produces Curol. Curol can be used to treat certain types of cancer. However, botana curus grows very slowly and is on the list of endangered species. So we need to find a new plant that is related to BC. We cant only rely on BC since it grows very slowly and we need curol to treat cancer. So we tested three other species (X,Y, and Z) to see which one is closely related to BC so we can get curol.
   The species that is closely related to BC is species Z. One way to prove this is through test #6. In this test we used a gel electrophoresis model to test the DNA bands in all three species and botana curus. Test #6 showed us that species Z and BC have the same DNA banding pattern. This means that BC and species Z are related and may have a common ancestor. 
  Species Z and BC have the same amino acids. In test #( ) we translated the mRNA bases to find the amino acids in the protein. We found that both BC and species Z have the same amino acids. This means they both plant species produce the same protein.
   Another test we did to see if species Z is closely related to BC, was paper chromatography. We had put a sample of each species and botana curus on the paper and put the bottom of it in a cup with a very small amount of water. We left it there so it can separate the pigments of each sample. Species Z and BC had the same pigment and pigment separations. 
   All three tests proved that Botana Curus and species Z are related. Now we can use species Z and botana curus to get curol.
   

TWIS post #4

In class we talked about antibiotic resistent bacteria. When a bacteria is not affected by an antibiotic that means that it is resistant. When bacteria becomes resistant it has a mutation that causes it to survive the antibiotics and multiply.

In the picture you can see the the antibiotic isn't affecting the bacteria and it is reproducing.

We also talked about vaccines. A vaccine we all know about is the flu shot. A vaccine is a dead or weaker version of the pathogen. The reason we have to get vaccines is because we have to get our immune system used to the vaccine. When an invader enters out body out white blood cells create antibodies to tag the pathogen for destruction. After this our body creates memory cells so that way then next time our body encouters this pathogen it will fight it off faster to prevent us from getting sick.