Sunday, September 11, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
3.12 Amniotic Fluid
- Amniotic fluid is found inside the embryo.
- If anything happens to the outside uterus amniotic fluid prevent anything happening to the unborn child.
- Amniotic fluid can't be compressed, it absorbs pressure.
3.11 placenta
- The placenta grows out of the developing embryo not the mother.
- The blood vessels inside the placenta are the child's blood vessels including arteries and veins.
- The placenta grows into the wall of the uterus.
- Glucose, amino acids and fats travels through the mother's blood stream and into the wall of the uterus.
- Glucose, amino acids and fats will cross into the child's blood at the placenta.
- Amino acids, sugars and fats will go from the mother's to the child's blood.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
3.16 DNA and Genetic information
- One chromosome contains thousands of genes
- There are 4 kinds of bases called: Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine.
- They are found in DNA in the pairs: Thymine-Adenine and Guanine-Cytosine.
- When you magnify one gene you can see a double helix which appear parallel.
- the order of bases is always the same (ATGC) this all constructs protein for the cytoplasm
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