Week of January 5-9

This week we focused on photosynthesis and protein synthesis. We built a chart of photosynthesis that consisted of how water and energy from the sun contribute to the making of glucose and oxygen. Carbon Dioxide that we breath out also contributes to this process. It's like a cirlce. We breath in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide that the plants take in and then they release oxygen that we breath in. Then a small animal eats the plants. A large animal eats a little animal. While this is happening the glucose of the plant is still in their bodies. Finally we eat the large animal and we get the glucose. Then the process of protein synthesis comes into play. Many processes take place during protein synthesis like transcription and translation. As we learned on Thursday from two simulations. One describing transcription and one describing translation. Transcription is the process where DNA is read and made into RNA. Translation is the process where the ribosome reads the RNA made from the DNA and makes into a protein. On Friday we had a quiz on all of this. I hope everyone did well ( including me)!!!!!!!!