Protein and Homeostasis Project
So in class we learned about protein synthesis and homeostasis. For protein synthesis we chose a protein, elastin and made a poster dipicting the steps from DNA to protein and central dogma. The poster also includes the code used for the protein. For homeostasis we focused on heart rate. We did an expirment to prove that heart rate was a form of homeosis and used that data to make the presention on the right.
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ConceptsDNA - deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic material in cells.
RNA - ribonucleic acid; acts as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA protein - formed from amino acid chains; do most cell functions. protein synthesis - the process by which the genetic code puts together proteins in the cell. amino acid - combine to make proteins. Each protein has a different amino acid strand that makes it able to do different things. transcription - DNA unzips and matches with mRNA in the nucleus. translation - codons are matched with anticodons attached to amino acids. for controlling the synthesis of proteins. protein folding - the process in which a protein is structure homeostasis - a series of processes that work together to keep your body stable. Both of these projects required the concepts above. To make our protein poster we had to learn what protein is and how it becomes protein from DNA. Majority of what is on our post is protein synthesis. For the heart rate project we needed to know and incorporate homeostasis and how it was related to our expiriment. |
ReflectionI think that both projects turned out good. We had all the information we need, however both could have been more aesthetically pleasing. I learned that I'm a really bad artist and I should work more on my sketching. Drawing out protein synthesis did not look good when I did it. I should improve on this so future schematics can be understandable. I also learned that I don't really mind doing the more boring tasks like researching online. I should work on being more focused and communicating with my group better. For the protein project the group had a rough start. At the beginning we were off task and didn't do much work. But we worked together really well dividing up tasks evenly so that everyone contributed equally in the project. In my homeostasis group we didn't divide the work evenly so lot of work was pushed onto a few people. In that group we came up with our idea and experiments very quickly and organized everything timewise so never fell behind.
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