The Physics of Santa Clause

12/18/2012

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          Today is Science Solutions Tuesday. In this blog I will be blogging about an artical that I have read on the physics of Santa Clause. The first thing it said was how Santa Claus could deliver presents to everyone in the world? The answer was: if you count all the children in the world there would be over 324 billion, however because Buddhism  Jewish, and other religious don't celebrate this, there is now about 324.5 million kids who do celebrate. Another question was how can he carry so many things in his sled, If every kid wants a medium size bag of legos, that would be over 300 tons, not including Santa himself. Then at the same time his reindeer magically "fly" in the night sky, and the earths gravity is strong  Another question was about his reindeer  How could the possibly "fly"? Answer: there is still 300,000 species of animals that have not been discovered, so that was the answer for that.

     So? What do you think after these statements that I have told you, do you think Santa Claus is real? I guess until we find out, the world may never know  if Santa Claus is really real or not. If you ever come across some evidence that you read in an article, don't be afraid to share it with somebody. Who knows you might have uncovered a huge piece of evidence!
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Interphase

12/11/2012

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     Today is Science Solutions Tuesday. In this blog I will be blogging about a special step in mitosis, Interphase. Interphase is when a cell duplicates it self, so that way, there will be more cells like it. It is almost like making copies of a paper. Interphase is also another word for replicates. When you replicate something, you make copies of it. So today I will show you how Interphase does its job. 

     First, the cell copies by having its chromatids copied. Chromatids are two strands of DNA. Chromatids are put together like an "X" figure. To have the chromatids copied, they need to be all over the place. So, that is the first step of having interphase,. This is mainly the part of interphase. It just copies chromatids. Once the chromatids have been copied, it is another step in mitosis.
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DNA

12/10/2012

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Today is Science Solutions Tuesday. In this blog, I will be describing DNA, and what it looks like. DNA is what we are currently learning in Mrs. Poole's science class. DNA is like a blueprint, of who you are. It is the shape of a double helix. It almost looks like a twisted ladder. DNA was mainly discovered by Rosalind Franklin, but other scientest had helped too. DNA is a really interesting thing to look at. Every living thing has cells, and DNA. DNA consists of bases, phosphates, and sugars. When DNA replicates it splits down the middle. From that same strand of DNA, there is always another identical pair inside it. When the DNA replicates the other strand is the same exact kind as the one before. Simply without DNA, no life is possible.

In summary, without DNA, there is no life. As I explained above, all living things have to have some form of DNA, within themselfs,in order to survive. As you may recall, there is DNA in animals, plants, and humans. Life is a miracle, in more so in humans, becuase we are able to survive, and specificly, a gift for humans on this earth. Also, in reading previous articles, not only do we need DNA, we also need RNA, to form life.
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