Friday, November 22, 2013

Topic: Why would it be beneficial to be able to regenerate parts like the planaria worms?

It would be beneficial to our society, because then we might discover something new. Knowing more about the parts of a worm...we could later determine how to regenerate parts when we are in need of one. Coming to our advantages, less cures would be necessary and more people would become healthier! If we could regenerate our own bodies...then it would be interesting. Planaria would only just be the beginning, once we perfect it...If we do the experiment and cut out different parts to check our theory, we would understand which part of the body would regenerate the fastest. This could allow us, to advance in medical fields and be for the "greater good". In that lab., it was a very interesting experience to witness and to learn about. Someday, humanity would have the ability to regenerate.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Pandemic-2 Game Analysis

Today, I played a game on http://www.pandemic-2.com/  This game allowed the player to play in either a realistic mode or a relaxed mode. The game also allowed the player to create a disease to spread around the globe. The disease classes were these following choices: a virus, a bacteria or a parasite. The goal is to spread the disease around the globe before the government finds a vaccine and distribute enough to stop the diesease. Your time runs out when you have not infected enough of the human population. If you infected every country or location of the world, then they would probably die before they couldcreate a vaccine. I chose to play the game in relaxed mode and I chose bacteria as the disease. There were survivors in different areas because those places had already shut down their airports and docks. Since they did that...the disease could not really get far to many other regions. My methods of transmission were through air, water and insects. My initial symptoms were sneezing, coughing, fatigue, pulmonary edemia, dementia, ataxia, depression, blindness and hypotonia. My pathogen slowly evolve by having more and more symptoms. It was resisted to air, heat, moisture and drugs. The difference of choosing a different pathogen is that the rate of deaths increases or decreases, depending on which the one you chose. The results also turned out differently, when you play with a different disease. In the second game, I think the strategy that saves the most people while sacrificing the fewest is to close the border lines, airports and shipyards. You could also give out masks and vaccine to slow the death rate of the game.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

An Ode to Photosynthesis

Where would we be if we didn't have photosynthesis?
What would we do if we didn't have plants, flowers, or trees,
to provide us the oxygen we need to survive?
Where would photosynthesis be without their simple factors?
If we didn't have soil, sunlight, water, or temperature, how would plants grow?
Would we even have enough oxygen or air to breathe?

Without photosynthesis, we wouldn't have
oxygen and human civilization might cease to exist.
Without it, plants would not have parts of the cell
such as vacuole, ribosomes, and other things
All organisms, big or small, thin or think,
We all need to breathe oxygen to survive.

Now let's take some time to appreciate,
how sunlight converts water and carbon dioxide into high-energy sugars and oxygen!
Without photosynthesis, I would not be able to write this poem
or be able to the tell you some parts that are found in the cell
Photosynthesis is a process of life that repeats over and over again.
Because without photosynthesis, then we would not be smelling this lovely air around us right now!