Diamante poems

Mexican Grizzly Bear

Large Extinct 

Eating Killing Sleeping

Same Scientific Classification of U. Arctose 

Living Fishing Preying

Fierce Threatened 

Grizzly Bears

A Career in Paleontology

     What does it mean to be a paleontologist? Or better what is a paleontologist? Well a paleontologist researches, searches, and studies prehistoric fossils.  Fossils, which are preserved remains of ancient life, are usually found in rocks. They record the history of life on earth. These amazing people study things from a full sized dinosaur to a prehistoric piece of poop known as coprolites. But to most people this doesn't sound like a fun job, but that isn't the fun part, the fun part of being a paleontologist is so that you can travel around the world visiting sites and probably have the opportunity to study it and get close to it. And whats best, is that you get paid visiting the world and sleeping in comfortable hotels.
     There are many major type of paleontologists, the first kind being the micro-paleontologist, who studies micro fossils such as prehistoric bacteria or fossils that have been crushed to pieces too small for the human eyes to see. another type being that they are called Paleontologist, these are the scientists who studies prehistoric fossils from plants such as leaves, tree bark, and etc. 
     However, this may seem all fun and games, but this is not an easy job to get into. Many years of education in this major is needed. Many paleontologist that are working today have a Ph.D. level of training. Many colleges recommend taking as much science class and math classes as possible in highschool and a foreign language since as a paleontologist, it is required to travel around the world a lot. Many colleges refer to this topic as a part of geology.
And a minor in another area of science is recommended in many colleges.
     Although this job sounds too fun to have a good pay, it is a good pay though. Minimum pay will be around $40,000 and can even go all the way up to $80,000 and above. However, this job may seem fun and has a high salary, it isn't an easy job to get. Thousands of Paleontologist are trained every where in the world making it very competitive similar to the computer engineering major. Not many company that accepts these jobs exist, and those that do exist only hire the best of the best. Overall this is a good career to get into and it will be really fun. 

Source: http://www.fallsoftheohio.org/ACareerinPaleontology.html

Bioengineering

     What is bioengineering? Or Biological Engineering? The term biological engineering means that using the concept and knowledge of engineering and apply for Biology and only for biology. It is often confused with Biomedical Engineering where, the knowledge is only for medical uses. This confusion is also similar to how people get confused with computer engineering and computer science.
     Biological Engineering is the studying and solving life problem related to living organism. But bioengineers had been making Genetically modifying our food. Genetically modified organisms also known as GMO, are basically bioengineer's creation. What and how GMO works is that GMO are organisms that have had their DNA changed for a positive reason. Genetically modifying an organism to being either to grow faster, have a better shape, or maybe even have a better taste.
     With the amount of organisms and food that we eat daily that are GMO, biological engineers have yet to find the side effects to eating GMO, we do not know if there are any lethal side effect to these GMO organisms. With the unsure, the FDA have still been allowing these Genetically modified organisms to be sold to citizens with the hopes that it will not cause diseases.
     With these, I strongly believe that GMO organisms should be stopped until these biological engineer find the answer to whither or not these will cause side effects. If they insisted to feed genetically modified organisms, they should at least tell the citizens that the food they are eating are genetically modified.

Letter to Gregor Mendel

Dear Gregor Mendel,

     I am quit amazed at your discover of traits that can be passed on from parents to offsprings. Luckily, in the years that follow, many scientist have found out relations from DNA, to your experiment of traits or as you like to call them factors. As you might know, traits are passed onto their children by the parent's genes with is contained within the chromosomes. These chromosomes are then inside of DNA, the DNA's double Helix allows everyone's DNA to be different even from parents to offspring.
With this discovery of how DNA is related to gene which controls the trait that will be expressed on a person's face, your discovery of factors being passed on from parents to offspring is related to DNA by the fact that genes that control the trait belongs in DNA. Your discovery have lead these other amazing people to make discoveries and let us humans have a better understanding of who we are and where we came from.

Sincerely,



Bryan Kwong

Dominant and Recessive Allele

     Well what are Alleles? They are basically genes that determine traits. Still don't understand? it is the thingy that lets you have different color hair or different color eyes, and maybe even your skin color.

     This is not a complicated concept ... sort of. There are two types of Alleles, Dominant and recessive. A dominant alleles is basically, well, dominant. It will only require one of your parent to have a specific trait for their children to have that trait. But a recessive is complete different, requires both of your parents to have that trait in order for the children to have the trait. So this is why some traits are more rare than other. 

     For example, a couple have a children. The father has brown eyes(BB) and the Mother has blue eyes(bb). Since brown is a dominate trait and blue is recessive, there is only a 25% chance for their children to get get blue eyes according to the punnett square. The reason for that is that the dominant trait does not need both letters to be capital in order to gain that trait, rather only one. However even though that the allele for the blue eyes is still in the children, but the dominant trait is the one that shows.

If Animals could regenerate like Planarians

     Planarians are non parasitic flat worms. They are very unique because they they are similar to starfish, they can regenerate a missing part in their body. These worms are able to get sliced in half, and regenerate into two living organism, also like a cell's division.
     This ability to regenerate a missing body part is amazing because if this was the case for all animals, then extinction is no longer a word that we would use in our dictionary. This would effect the ecosystem dramatically because, animals would be over populated due to the fact that they cannot die from the loss of an arm, where as if they weren't able to regenerate, they would just lie on the ground and wait for death. However, this does not apply to all animals because, if these regeneration abilities can be apply to extant, but almost extinct animals, this would be fantastic because these species of animals are able to keep on living on this earth.

Child Reproduction

"Mommy where do babies come from?" one of the most feared question of parenting. Well little Timmy, here is how the cookie crumbles. It all starts off with a mommy and daddy who love each other very much, and they have a special night where ... well you don't want to know. Then the sperm and the egg join together to form a new cell in a process called fertilization. Then these cells go through Mitosis, where the cell that went through fertilization divides into 2 other cells and then eventually have so many cell that it forms a human body. Since the new born Baby is actually made up of billions of the cell that was fertilized, the baby and the parents may have the same traits, and these traits can be anything from the eye color to their lips shape. These traits are carried from the parents to the baby through genes, A sequence of DNA that determine and passes on a certain trait from parent to offspring. And this is how a baby is made, simple enough?