Genetic Response to PinkBubbles4589 (:

I am responding PinkBubbles4589 on her blog about Fragile X-Syndrome. The symptoms for this disease is mental issues, "autistic like behavior" slow at speaking or problems with speaking, weird physical or behavioral problems and it can be passed on by any family members. There is no treatment for this disease, but they are trying to find one. Also, there isn't proof that Fragile X-Syndrome can kill you. It is a common disease within men and women, 1 out of 3600 for men and 1 out of 6000 for women have Fragile X-Syndrome IN THE WORLD! Mostly, men are able to get it because their hormones may protect the Syndrome. What happens in the cell is that if the genes that trigger the disease turns off and causes the cell to have less protein then regular, which causes the cell to tell the gene that is related to Fragile X-Syndrome. People still need to research because there isn't a cure for this disease because it is easy to receive it. I believe that it is difficult to live with Fragile X-Syndrome because it is a disease and you have problems with your body. The questions I still have after reading this blog is, will there ever be a cure?

I got this information from:

http://pinkbubbles4589.blogspot.com/

Turner's Syndrome

The disease I'm researching is Turner's Syndrome, this disease was discovered during the year of 1951. If women have Turner's Syndrome, the symptoms are:

• Shorter then regular women
• They cannot conceive children because their ovaries don't work.
• They have extra skin on their neck.
• Swelling on hands and feet
• Heart effects
• and Kidney problems

The treatments for this disease is therapy. Therapy may not always work but, it helps mildly. The mortality of this disease is they may live until the age of 17, it would be a miracle if they lived longer then the age of 17. Only one out of 2,500 women are born with Turner's Syndrome world wide. Women are most vulnerable to Turner's Syndrome, men cannot get this disease.What happens at the "MOLECULAR" level with the genes that cause the disease are that people with Turner's Syndrome are born with one X- Chromosome. Regular females are born with two X- Chromosomes. If you have Turner's Syndrome that means you were born with one X- Chromosome. Another treatment is not possible because Turner's Syndrome is hard to fight.

What I think about this syndrome is that women who have it are unfortunate because they don't live a very long life. Also, their family members and themselves are suffering because they have to worry about themselves and the person with Turner's Syndrome. All in all, I feel very bad for people who have Turner's Syndrome because they are going through a lot.


kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/genetic/turner.html
www.medicinenet.com/turner_syndrome/article.htm
turners.nichd.nih.gov/
learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/whataregd/turner/
rarediseases.about.com/cs/turnersyndrome/a/020803.htm

Punnet Square Project

In class, we were given an assignment and that was to make a poster explaining how to create a punnet square and what the punnet square requires. We had to define the words heterozygous, homozygous, phenotype, genotype, recessive, and dominant. During the process of doing this I learned how to make a proper punnet square. After completing the project we were given, I realized that when making a punnet square you have to have the phenotype and genotype to figure out what exactly your trying to figure out.

Bank Robberies (social studies)

There has been many robberies in the state of New Jersey. 53 days into 2009, 23 banks have been robbed. People think it is because of the economy and how it's really bad at the moment. Steve Seigle thinks that because of the economy is causing the rates of bank robberies to go up. In the past there has not been many bank robberies in the winter.






http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1235366711102470.xml&coll=1

My Roller Coaster Website

The Spine Cracker Coaster

Israeli killed a doctor's kids ( social studies )

The article tells us that Dr. El-Eish's just went through a tragedy losing his 3 daughters to a explosion by an Israeli tank in mid January. The Israeli military said it was unintentional. Dr. El-Eish's is a gynecologist and received his medical degree in Israel, also has worked in Israeli hospitals. The Israeli military commander gave order to his troops to shoot at the suspicious figures (Dr. El-Eish's 3 daughters). The doctor is well known and well liked by Israelis. Dr. El-Eish's didn't see any warnings from the military to evacuate from his house or anything so he assumed it was safe until this horrific tragedy happened to his life. I think that what the Israeli military did was not nice because what if someone killed their kids. How would they feel?












http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/04/gaza.idf/index.html

Apply and Worm video about Newton's Laws

In school we are learning about Newton's First Laws. On the smartboard we have in our classroom we watched a interactive video about how Newton's Laws influences us. On the video we watched it showed an apple with a worm inside. This video is a very helpful way of teaching people Newton's Laws and how they work. I think this video was very funny and interesting.