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Blog week 8

This week in lab was our last week to look at our fast-growing plants. Our plants are beginning to grow seeds/beans on them. That way if we wanted to, we could use those seeds to grow a new plant. 


In lab, I learned about mutations. There are three types of mutations:
  1. Point mutation: a change to a single nucleotide base 
  2. Insertion mutation: a genetic change that involves the addition of a segment of DNA (adding one or more DNA bases)
  3. Deletion mutation: a type of genetic change that involves the absence of a segment of DNA 
This is something new I have learned. To help us learn/understand this we did a superhero lab activity. 

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How to relate to what you already know?
 In class, we talked about how there can be beneficial/harmful mutations. I can relate this to what I notice are harmful mutations. I did not realize that cancer was a mutation, although after thinking about it long I realized how it was. I realized this was a mutation because it is a permanent change in a DNA sequence that affects the protein gene coding.

Remaining questions:
What are some factors that can affect DNA so a mutation may occur?

Comments

  1. Julia MikkelsenMarch 8, 2023 at 11:49 AM

    Great post Amber! I also had no idea that cancer was a form of a mutation. It makes me think that in a non-superhero context most times a mutation is a negative thing. I am not sure if it's true but it seems reasonable. I would like to learn more about mutations and their physical effects.

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  2. Ali McDermottMarch 9, 2023 at 4:19 PM

    Hi Amber! That is a great question. I would love to learn more about DNA mutations and find DNA fascinating to learn about. I also didn't know cancer was a mutations so was surprised to learn that.

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  3. Ali CraigMarch 10, 2023 at 10:36 AM

    Hi Amber, this is a great post! I had the same question after this week. I also did not know that about cancer, but after learning it makes sense. I thought the superhero lab was super helpful to solidfy our understandings of mutations.

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