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Wednesday 9 December 2020

Ako

 


What decides what a baby will look like?



Babies have cells - 

  • They get 50% of DNA from each of the parents, 

  • The baby can look like the mum, but have the dads eyes or hair colour (or vice versa). 

  • It could look like the mum or dad (not both)

  • Adults have 100 trillion cells in them - babies have less cells than adults because they are smaller

  • A man and a woman reproduce and make a baby. The woman carries the baby - this is called pregnancy. 

  • How do you feed a baby in utero? 

    • The mother needs to eat healthy foods which she digests. The nutrients go to the baby through the umbilical cord which is like a feeding tube. At the end of the pregnancy, the baby can tell the difference between different kinds of foods. 




I helped Mariah with her project. They used to cut their hair to make clothes, and they go into the showers and they suffocate and die. They are Jewish people and they got bullied by Hitler. 


I know from Hope and Syraiah-Lee's one that there is a symbol called a swatzika that was used by the Nazi party. Its a bad symbol. 





Wednesday 18 November 2020

Kordell's cloning

 Cloning and de-extinction, cloning is when you print the same exact thing as what you're copying, de-extinction is when you're trying to copy something that is already dead.


I agree with cloning because it could help take away all the young years and you could be an adult straight away. You can also copy cows and other meat to make sure they are all the same meat wise, more milk production, more lean meat or more fattier. With cloning you also can make two of you so you can do all your jobs in half the time. If you clone also you will never run out of meat and you will have more fur to use for clothes. De-extinction will be cool too because then I could see a real dinosaur in real life not just in books or movies. Also if you do bring dinosaurs back to life you people might start hunting them again and make them extinct again or they could try to use them to kill their enemies. 


The reasons why I wouldn’t agree with cloning and de-extinction is because it might stuff up our ecosystem, meaning that we do not know how the species will act or behave if they are brought back. The animals will either kill everything else or might get killed by other predators. Also the cost to actually attempt to clone something would be really expensive and there is no guarantee that it will work. Also a lot of people are against trying to clone versus actually trying to protect the species that are still alive. 


Cloning has always happened naturally with identical twins when an embryo splits into two or more. This is not the case with normal twins as the process is different.


Monday 16 November 2020

Kordells athletics

 Last Friday there was athletics there was Benghazi, Alamein,Tripoli and Tobruk. These are the four houses of our school and they are named after the streets surrounding the school. I am in Benghazi, and we had shot putt, high jump, long jump and discus. I came 1st at long jump and discus and came 3rd in high jump. My favourite one was discus because I have a really good arm and technique for it. This year I finally figured out how to get my timing right for taking off on long jump and that's why I did really good. In high jump I surprised myself because last year I didn't even attempt it because I was too short.

Morning tea time I went to the shop with Havea, Chance and Mr J. I bought a drink for Havea and I and a pie to give me energy. When Morning tea was finished we had races, I only did two races which were the 75m and the 100m. I came fourth in the 75m race  because it was a shorter distance and came second to last in the 100m because it was too long and my legs were already tired from the first race. Then it was time for lunch and we had a mean feed of sausages and ice blocks that skids were selling for $1 and the sausages were $2. Lunchtime felt super long and we were playing with the soft foam pads, pretending they were swords and shields, while we were playing one of the junior kids( Stanley’s little sister) accidently got caught in the middle and got hurt, we stopped to make sure she was alright and once she stopped crying and her brother came to comfort her, we carried on playing.

 After lunch there was time for the finals for running and also the parent and teachers race that everyone was looking forward to.

The mums raced first and Grace’s mum won the race and then the teachers raced. We all were waiting to see James to run but instead he piggybacked Mr Roy and Mr Roy pretended that he was on a race horse, everyone was laughing and we had a good day. I enjoyed Athletics this year because I got to have fun and eat heaps with all my mates.


Tuesday 10 November 2020

Kordell's Microscope Experience

The first slide I looked at some cell veins. The cell veins looked like the inside of your eye but it had heaps of veins going through it. The colour of the veins were not too dark but more a light blue, red and brown. The second slide I looked at was a hairy cockroach leg. There was heaps of little hair and long hairs and the colour was brown. It was very small, tinier then a strand of hair. The third slide was a bee sting. The bee sting was very tiny and had heaps of hair and was dark yellow but could easily be mistaken for brown. It was very pointy on one end and on the other it was straight edged, it also had puss still connected to the stinger. The last slide was from onion roots. it didn't have too much detail apart from a cluster of purple dots.










Thursday 3 September 2020

tree of life

 

 


Our initial thoughts

  • The wolf is connected to the 

  • A water lily is connected to an orchid and a sunflower

  • This is the evolution of sea creatures

  • Its about animals and insects

  • Its like a timeline and family tree

  • Its what they use to stay alive

  • Its what they eat

  • The green thing is what they eat

  • It's about where they live

  • It's about animals

  • There’s heaps of animals

  • It's about how the animals and stuff evolved

  • Its a tree of nature

  • Different categories of animals

  • Different food chains


What we learnt

  • 3.6 billion years ago - first living things started to exist (origin of life)

  • All the organisms on the purple branch live in the ocean. 

  • The blue branch turns into insects and crabs. 

  • The green branch is the plant kingdom. 

  • 42 million years ago wolf,lion,Bear and kekeno in car nvores.

  •  Lion is in the animal kingdom.

  •  The last flower was a sunflower.

  •  It started 3.6 million years ago.

  •  The first organism archaea.

  •  Bear is in the animal kingdom. 

  • There are more in the animal kingdom.

  •  The first plant was a sea lettuce.

  •  There are 5 kingdom.  

  •  The second to last plant is a carrot.

  •  They is 6 colour

  • There are less 

  • The second organism is a spirochaete.

  • Litia- Kingsnakes are medium size nonvenomous snakes that kill by constriction.    

  • A crocodile is related to the dinosaurs and birds - Kymani 

  • A flamingo is related to a T-REX. 

  • The Sunflower is the last flower to be born.

  • Litia- Kingsnake  colored in repeating patterns of Red, White and black

  • Railey:a flatworm is a kind of worm that's from the lophotrochozoans family.

  • Wesley:A platypus is the only animal that gives birth

  • Mariah - Platypus is in the kingdom of animals. And a platypus is in the color Red. It is in the family of tetrapods. It existed 170 million years ago.

  • chimpanzees are closely related to humans.

  • EH Htoo Butterfly are beautiful bugs; they have an extraordinary life, the first kind involved in about 160 mya. 

    • Michael: Hippo is inside the animal kingdom.

  • isi - 

  • Hope - A Carrot Daucus is in the dicots family

  • Maria -  The clown fish is in the vertebrate family  

  • Stanley - A Aardvark is connected to a pekapeka, an aardvark is also family with the Elephant. 


Thursday 6 August 2020

By saia , wesley and kordell


1) How many chromosomes do human beings have in their cells??=
23 cells and 46 cells in total.

2)How many chromosomes do monkeys usually have in their cells? Monkeys have 48 chromosomes in their body. This number of chromosomes is greater than two of human chromosomes.

3) is it genes that hold chromosomes that hold genes? Which is right?
Chromosomes hold genes because chromosomes have some DNA in it.

Genomics Reading - Notes/Vocab
Monday 3 of August 2020

GENOMICS is the study of cells that make up the body. 

Organism - a living thing (humans, bugs, birds, animals etc). 

XX - female
XY - male

Humans have 22 sets of chromosomes which are made up of A, C, G and T bases. These are in different combinations which change =your physical appearance/characteristics. 

Micheal)
Humans and monkeys have a lot of similarities. We are both mammals. So that means we are both warm blooded which means we both need to stay warm or else =we can freeze to death, but other animals like snakes sharks etc are cold blooded also mammals are the only things that can sweat so we can die from overheating. Monkeys and humans also have opposable thumbs which means we can use our thumbs for tools like utensils. Monkeys generally have 48 chromosomes. This number of chromosomes is greater than the number passed by humans by two.

Wesley)
We both also communicate in our own languages monkeys speak in their own language and humans speak in their own. Humans are carnivores and monkeys. They both have shelter/home like monkeys live in the zoo and humans have home. Humans and monkeys are both primates. Chimpanzees are genetically closest to humans, and in fact, chimpanzees share about 98.6% of our DNA. Monkeys and humans know how to speak sign language. And monkeys can hug/high five/run just like humans. Humans and monkeys are omnivore. They both eat bananas just like humans, but humans eat steak and meat. 

Saia)
Monkeys and Humans are the same but there are some differences between them.
 Humans lifespan is 82yrs and Apes lifespan are 39yrs. Gorilla Lifespan is 35 to 40yrs and champagne lifespan are 39yrs. Mammals are warm blooded like humans and monkeys and cold blooded are animals like fish/sharks/turtles and penguins.  Humans are carnivores which means that they eat meat. If they are carnivores they have sharp teeth to cut the meat. Lots of monkeys are carnivores too. In addition there are monkeys and humans that are vegetarian which mean that they only eat vegetables.  


  1. Humans have fewer chromosomes than monkeys. 

  • What is a homosapien?
      A Homosapien is an old name for Humans.

  • What is a primate?
      A primate is a eutherian mammal for short monkeys.the chief bishop or            
         archbishop of   a province.

  • What is the difference between the two?
      The difference is monkeys can't talk and Humans can.

  •  What does ´homo´ mean?
       It means a homosexual man

Monday 20 July 2020